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...President now thrives on the hardest work of his life. His early-morning routine has changed little: awake at 7:30; a quick but thorough go at the Washington and New York papers (he reads Columnists Clapper and Lippmann regularly); breakfast of scrambled eggs, bacon, toast and milk; then, propped in bed in his year-round lightweight, solid-color pajamas, with a blue cape around his shoulders, a chat with his secretaries on the day's schedule. Despite their best efforts and the President's recurring resolutions to cut down, his daily list of callers always seems...
Henry Cabot Lodge's report to the Senate was rooted in an experience that Columnist Ray Clapper wished every Congressman could have. The Senators had not returned from beyond the three-mile limit as experts. They had been in the way of the war at times, had been a headache to the military. But they had come back with one lesson deeply engraved: World War II is a long way from being won. Said Maine's Brewster, summing up: "Our soldiers know how tough this war is. We ought to know how tough...
...Raymond Clapper: "Isolation has won the opening battle in the United States Senate. . . . Yet there must come a time when the debate must be held and when it will be necessary to have the worst said that can be said-because any course that America and other nations adopt must be strong enough to withstand the speeches of isolationist Senators...
...press was divided on the Kelland Plan. Columnist Raymond Clapper greeted it with huzzahs; the Cleveland Plain Dealer sniffed a new "super-imperialism." But on one fact press and politicians agreed: here was a concrete proposal...
Well, having been flushed to the surface, I might as well sing, spill the goods, come clean. Here's the full inside story, and the SERVICE NEWS is beating Pegler, Clapper, and Drew Pearson to it: Yale men have secretly banded together in order to wipe out for once and for all the Crimson Menace. Operating strictly under order from the Blue Square in New Haven, I revealed the intolerable conditions in the Ha'v'd Ya'd and got a DSC and a shiny new yo-yo from the PBY committee (Pour le Bettrement de Yale), Fifth Column Division...