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Somehow I had never expected Stalingrad, the worst blitzed city of the war, to be cheerful. But the people are as chipper as chipmunks. A woman with the fine, warm features of an old coin stopped to say: "This was a beautiful city." A friendly little fellow, quietly steeping himself in vodka at the hotel bar, came over to condemn Truman and then explained that tonight he was going to get only "culturally" drunk, that is to say, not stinkingly so. Another man saw us walking along the street by the theater, and because we were dressed differently from Stalingradites...
...quiet, pleasant weekend, a welcome change from the Washington hurlyburly. He found his mother pert and chipper, saw his old Battery D mates, went early to bed after dinner in his Hotel Muehlebach suite. His only official duty was a three-minute radio address in honor of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...speaker was a chipper, chubby French Canadian named Antoine Phileas Coté, a freshman M.P. but an old hand at politics. Over radio station CJBR at Rimouski, Que., Coté said flatly that the Prime Minister, after his severe bout with a cold, looked "old and worn out." "Mr. King," he said, "wants a [Liberal Party] convention before his retirement," so that a successor may be chosen. "I believe that this convention will take place in 1948, probably in Montreal...
...still had his chipper spirits. But his Midas touch was gone. In 1936 he turned up in Asbury Park, N.J. as a lunchroom and supermarket owner. He plugged a dandruff cure on the side, operated a bowling alley in Flint. He still talked grandly of making a pile. But it was too late. Last week, in his eight-room apartment in Manhattan, Billy Durant, 85, died. Of the millions he had been "loaned" he left nothing...
...long conference with Krug delayed the President's departure aboard the yacht Williamsburg for a weekend visit to the Naval Academy. When he reached Annapolis after an all-night cruise, he looked chipper and relaxed. Next day he made an informal little speech before lunch in Bancroft Hall. There was a subdued laugh from the future admirals when the President said: "The future is in your hands. . . . Those of us now running the Government are coming to the end of their term." Then, as a raw wind swept off the river, Army veteran Harry Truman watched the Navy lose...