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Like any man who has spent 32 years in politics, Jimmy Byrnes has a well-developed bump of caution. Lost in a storm over Moscow last week, he fretted : "You know, we might run into the side of a mountain." His interpreter, Charles E. Bohlen, pointed out that there were no mountains "around here." "That's fine," said Byrnes, "but do you know where 'here' is?" After a full hour of circling they landed, and Byrnes, in a tan topcoat and low pointed shoes, alighted in Moscow's sub-zero weather...
...Burly, bump-ahead Andrew Jackson Higgins last week called three of the executives of the Appliance Division of Higgins Industries, Inc. into his office. Calmly he made them a present of the appliance business. While the three men listened with jaws ajar, Higgins dictated a letter to his secretary...
...Dear Admiral." The Navy also had a form letter. It let "My dear Admiral" down with a gentler bump. Sent last month to all of the 369 flag officers still on active duty, the Navy's letter simply asked (for guidance in future planning) if the admiral wanted to retire-please reply. Of those who had replied by last week, only 16 said they wanted to get out. Among them were Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey (see above); 62-year-old Admiral Royal E. Ingersoll, commander of the Atlantic Fleet throughout most of the war; hardboiled Admiral Emory...
...Shoving and pushing, and pushed and shoved, a dishonoured bag of bones about London, or carted like a herring in a box through tunnels in the clay beneath it, as I bump my head in an omnibus, or hang, half-suffocated, from a greasy strap in the Underground, I dream, like other Idealists and Saints and Social Thinkers, of a better world than this, a world that might be, a City of Heaven brought down at last to earth...
...fleecy clouds and the three-plane fighter escort close at hand. Suddenly one of the fighters veered away from a fog bank, shot toward PerAlemánn's DC-2. The fighter whipped overhead, barely missed crashing squarely into the transport's fuselage. There was a sharp bump and it thundered into a spin. One of the transport's propellers had cut off its tail assembly...