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Literally atop this maze, in the hilltop St. George Hotel, Eisenhower spends most of his working days. In off hours, he lives in a pleasant Algiers villa with three companions: his devoted "dog robber" (orderly), Sergeant "Micky" McKeogh; a Scottish terrier named Telek; his principal aide, Navy Commander Harold Butcher, a friend from Washington days who used to be a broadcasting-company executive. Smooth, fast-talking, fast-thinking Harold Butcher is reputed to have much influence with Eisenhower...
...Beyond that no car could advance, for the road was mined. By the ambulance lay a soldier who looked up at us with the tender, inquiring gaze the eyes of wounded men often seem to wear. A first-aid man gently scooped him up and deposited him in his butcher's wagon...
Frankly, this reporter grieves with Navy, who well may float their ship of disgusted on the waves of civilian complaints. Our mistified Bostonians evidently do not realize that the time for being with feminine companions is indeed briefly spare. Time, at Harvard is rationed like meat at the corner butcher shop...
Vultee Vengeance. In Fort Worth, Hobson M. Mack, butcher, charged that Silas H. Strother, Vultee aircraft worker, bit off part of his ear in an argument over the price of pig's knuckles...
...meat famine will end soon. Butcher-shop counters should soon groan with beefsteaks and pork chops...