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...India's capital last week, "Vinegar Joe'' Stilwell sat rigidly in his rattan-cane armchair, long fingers playing with his favorite cigaret holder, eyes almost shut. Curtly he replied to his critics: the Ledo Road fulfills two U.S. objectives: 1) to get at least some supplies to blockaded China; 2) to set up a situation in which Japs are killed...
...tails and stood affably in St. George's parish house while admirers thronged around in celebration of his 50th anniversary. A delegation of Negroes and whites had come all the way from his native Erie. The Erie Club of New York sent him a silver-banded cane. Fellow parishioners presented a $1,500 check. New York's Bishop William T. Manning made a speech. The choir broke into Burleigh's deft, contrapuntal choral ode, Ethiopia's Paean of Exaltation. In a baritone that was still vibrant, Harry Burleigh himself sang Go Down Moses...
...Bluffs, Iowa, whose left leg was blown off by a land mine in Tunisia. Veteran Hendricks told worried Congressmen a few things: soldiers are concerned about their future and "what Congress is doing for them"; unless they are cared for, there will be another bonus march. Leaning on his cane, Veteran Hendricks spoke with emphasis: "The men in the foxholes are beginning to wonder what they are fighting...
...warm afternoon in May, John J. Pershing stepped out of a limousine at the White House and clumped across the porch leaning on his cane. France had been invaded. Photographers raised their cameras but the old man wrathfully lifted his cane...
...cameras clicked until Black Jack put his cane aside and drew himself to attention-grey Homburg untilted, old eyes straight, grey mustache clipped, chin drawn in, black suit pressed to razor edges, black shoes gleaming. Then he wheeled and marched inside to talk with the President. A newsman said softly: "Here we go again...