Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Giraud does not conceal his dependence on Murphy and the U.S. (at Casablanca, a memorandum supposedly prepared by Giraud for submission to De Gaulle turned out to be resting in Bob Murphy's coat pocket). The recent Giraud speech on French unity showed definite signs of U.S. influence; there were reports that he framed it as he did partly because the U.S. threatened to withhold equipment from his French troops. But such manifestations did not necessarily prove that Henri Giraud was a mere opportunist. He probably gave a better explanation in Algiers, just after his unity speech, and just...
...Statler wasn't crowded, if you sat on the steps . . . Lloyd. Stanley found it was more fun bumping around to Ruby Newman's music . . . John S. Taylor spent most of the evening trying to get his coat back . . . Norm Bradley was making the music tingle eight to the bar. He hit more than one bar before the mid-night music closed the show . . . Ford Boyd, Ed Thomas, and C. B. Hanson held a huddle in the Statler lobby to figure out their next play . . . Last seen, they were calling signals for the Copley Plaza . . . Forman was the only...
...goodby. Spaatz's verdict on the equally reserved King of England: "A wonderful man." When the Queen paid a visit to the U.S. Air Forces and it began to shower, quiet, grizzled Spaatz wrapped his raincoat around Her Majesty. Another man might have preserved the coat as a relic. Spaatz wears it all the time. It is as torn and stained as his old pancake cap with the ripped-out lining...
...Spokane, Washington, was presented with an honorary diploma by Major John F. Heffin, Commander of the Statistical School. Lieutenant Colonel Smith leaves Boston soon to begin work with the Air Force in Europe. Professor Edmund T. Learned, professor of Marketing at the Harvard School of Business awarded a coat of arms of Colonel Davison...
Cops. In Buffalo, Joseph Swiatek and Alexander Sarnowski went to jail for stealing a coat from Harold Gebhardt, who recognized it when they tried to sell...