Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's recollection was correct, except for a few details. Actually his first concern on winning the nomination was for the man who lost. It was not until after he had called at the headquarters of the late Robert A. Taft and had shaken his hand that Ike got around to the subject of vice presidential possibilities. Back in his own suite in Chicago's Blackstone Hotel, Ike sat down with Herbert Brownell, General Lucius Clay and a few other top advisors to discuss the business at hand. Eisenhower said he had only one thought: he wanted...
...deal with the Services' bureaucratic security offices as U.S. newsmen do, was baffled by all the excitement over his "breach of security." Said he: "All the Air Force has to do is to ignore our drawing. They're the only ones who can say whether it was correct or not. By making a fuss, they tend to give the impression that we were right...
...book's U.S. publishers advertise it as having sold 70,000 copies in Germany, although the German publishers more modestly correct that figure to just under 10,000. Lawyer-Author Kramer, now the state's attorney of the city of Hamburg, who used to defend anti-Nazis in court when Hitler was riding high, was usually in trouble with the regime. As a translator in the German army he was busted from captain and shipped off to the Russian front as a machine gunner. Out of that experience he has written an awkward though well-intentioned book...
Beirut, Lebanon Sir: I am still chuckling at Priestley's comments . . . John Boynton Priestley and I went to different schools in Bradford, Yorkshire ; you know, where the pudding comes from. His evaluation of all that religious conversion is as correct as it is shrewd and witty. I, too, know the "hunger for a show" of the British people-and why confine it to the British anyway? As for that Irish newspaper which said that Billy had taken Ireland by storm even in absentia: phooey! MAUD CHEGWIDDEN San Francisco Sir: If Graham goes for orange juice, the unpriestly Priestley...
...next year's Council sets up the proposed investigating committee. White said, it should receive the correct information in time to determine the nature of the '55 season award...