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WOLMI (Moon Tip) ISLAND was a rather useless place. Its only local reputation was as an off-the-cuff summer resort for the town of Inchon, to which it is joined by a long causeway. The northern end of the tiny island had boasted a large inn, complete with swimming pool, where Inchon's successful merchants could enjoy the summer breezes. After the Communists invaded South Korea, they set up a small guard unit on the island, ringed it with earthworks and hastily dug trenches...
...Dined with 55 A.F.L. and C.I.O. labor leaders and gave his by-now-familiar off-the-cuff, after-dinner speech: "There are probably a million people in this country who could do the presidential job better than I but I've got the job and I'm doing the very best...
...week, to celebrate the centenary of French's birth. His daughter, Margaret French Cresson (who once wrote a biography of her father-TIME, June 16, 1947), had selected and arranged the show. Among its carved mementos she included some more personal ones: French's mallets and chisels, cuff links, and a golden lock of hair clipped when he was three. Also on show was a life cast of French's sinewy hand, which turned out to be precisely like that of the Lincoln in Washington...
Greeks wanted "Van Flit," as they call him, to remember their gratitude. During the days before his departure, gifts poured into his Grande Bretagne hotel room: rugs, trays, photographs, and a precious pair of cuff links (a gift from Queen Frederika). His harassed wife Helen sighed, "They spoil him so he is going to be impossible to live with." Van Fleet said he was proud to be leaving behind a tautly trained Greek army, "today the finest in this part of the world...
...Americans, of course, had the wit to recognize it in the making. Yet here & there a quick eye, a sharp ear and a busy pen took note of the rich, small doings of 17th Century American life. These early histories, diaries, memoirs and letters, vivid scribbles on the cuff of history, have mostly been suppressed into the dreary, quoteless grey of the professional historian's page. America Begins gives a glimpse of the real wonderland behind that dingy looking glass...