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Much of last week's comment on the Yalta papers said that they disclosed "nothing new," meaning not much meat for headline writers. The memoirs of Churchill, Stettinius. Byrnes, Leahy-and calamitous events in Europe and Asia -had long since made plain the outlines of Yalta's decisions...
Businessmen mobilized a fleet of Cadillacs and Montgomery's only Rolls-Royce for his campaign. Once scornful of rich "got-rocks," Big Jim now has plenty of rocks himself (slices of an insurance agency and a battery business). He believes in the maxim: "Make no small plans." Big Jim...
Thurmond, the 1948 states rights' candidate for President of the U.S., defeated 66-year-old State Senator Edgar Brown in a fight to protest Brown's nomination by the state Democratic Executive Committee instead of by primary election, the chief instrument of democracy in one-party South Carolina...
Vaughan, apparently awakening to the stir he had caused, denied that he ever gave the interview.* Said worried Edgar Brown: "Misleading, untrue, vicious and a clear attempt to prejudice some South Carolina voters against me." At week's end Governor Jimmy Byrnes called a press conference to endorse Thurmond...
Then, at the age of 70, writes Dr. Stuart in Fifty Years in China, "I was catapulted by strange circumstances into the U.S. ambassadorship at Nanking." The circumstances: General George Marshall wanted his help in the ill-fated mission to bring together the country's Nationalist rulers and Communist...