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When he flew home last fall to give Harry Truman a dramatic up-to-the-minute briefing on his campaign train, it was no secret that "Beedle" Smith was thinking seriously of getting out. At the time, most observers expected that a new President would make it easy for him...
At 3:30 a.m. Captain MacWilliams banged into the C.N.A.C. ready room at Shanghai's Lunghua airport. He went up to a blue-suited Chinese at a long counter marked "Briefing." "You going to Suchow, eh?" said the Chinese. Then, in a positive tone, he added: "Suchow will fall...
MacWilliams checked the weather and the military situation. A chalked caution on the briefing board read: "Suchow general situation calm. Fighting going on southeast ten kilometers away. Never circle over or come down to look at fighting area." MacWilliams stopped to talk with other pilots warming their hands over a...
Following the Council's first meeting of the term, Plagenz said that the Christmas project will have top priority on the Fall agenda. The session in Phillips Brooks House was mainly devoted to a briefing of the new Council members on the group's functions.
Keeping his planes in the air more of the time than experts thought possible a few months ago, Tunner looks on the lift as a precision operation, not as an adventure or a political demonstration. VIPs alighting at Berlin's Tempelhof airdrome are disappointed to see only a dozen...