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...Surrender Day, the President was up at 7:15 a.m. As the tenseness grew, hour by hour, as Jimmy Byrnes made hurried trips in & out of the White House side door, Harry Truman outwardly seemed to be the calmest man in Washington...
...second "deck" of the barracks-like Navy Department on Washington's Constitution Avenue. There were gathered the Secretary, Under Secretary Forrestal, Assistant Secretary Bard, Admiral Harold R. ("Betty") Stark, Chief of Naval Operations. Nimitz, then a rear admiral and chief of the Bureau of Navigation, was the calmest man present...
...perhaps the calmest burst of amazing prophecy on record, General Electric's famed Physicist-Chemist Irving Langmuir recently predicted that man would some day speed up to 5,000 miles an hour in a vacuum tube. He thought it would be perfectly possible to build an airtight vehicle, magnetically suspended in the tube and electronically controlled, in which travelers might zip from New York to San Francisco in an hour...
That invite to Seth Grey for our party Monday still holds, since he's back with us, promoted, temporarily, to administrative assistant to Miss Lupo. We nominate him C. M. O. (Calmest Man on Campus) this week, because he actually knows where he'll be the next four months, come hell or high seas...
...Calmest 'reaction to the hullabaloo was that of New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock. Wrote he: "The most steadfast vigilance on the part of administrators has been unable to prevent successful cases of malingering, double-timing and false pretenses of need. . . . How can they be eliminated entirely? Do the Republicans know the answer? If so, they have not yet imparted...