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...remember that some of the greatest and most influential figures in American history have not been occupants of the Presidential chair . . . Hamilton, Webster, Clay, Calhoun, and our own Elaine and Reed...
...Correspondents' uniforms were thicker than usual around TIME'S offices last week. Army & Navy Editor Perry Githens came back from 45 days on a baby flattop. Foreign News Editor Fill Calhoun returned from the Mediterranean theater where he went last August. Bill Chickering got back from the landings on Bougainville and Kwajalein. And Bureau Chief Bill Fisher came home from the Far East for the first time since...
Will Lang was at the front with the Fifth Army fighting its way through the snow-capped Apennines-and "Christmas was just another day." Fill Calhoun, with the Canadians nearer the Adriatic, was quartered in an ex-Fascist's home among the minefields of Ortona-a home that was elegant enough until the retreating Germans vandalized the plumbing along with the statuary...
...Eighth Army continued its town-by-town, hill-by-hill advance up the Adriatic coast toward Ortona, TIME Correspondent Fillmore Calhoun sent this story...
...character in a new scene. The character: John Applegate, an average American. The scene: his mind. An uneven and diffuse book of ten chapters and 246 pages, Mainstream contains thumbnail biographical sketches that run in time from Cotton Mather to Franklin Roosevelt, in variety from John Calhoun to Phineas Barnum. Also included are a brief exposition of their ideas or of the aspect of American life they represented, good quotations from their works and a wandering argument that appears and disappears through the pages like the ne'er-do-well son of an old Southern family returning home...