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...President's invariable custom, whenever he left Warm Springs, to drive past the Foundation administration building and shout goodbye to the polio patients in wheelchairs...
Round of Wails. Now it was Baron Suzuki's turn to call on the Army extremists. As custom dictated, before naming his new cabinet, he chatted with ex-Premier Koiso and with fanatical ex-War Minister Field Marshal Gen Sugiyama. While making his round of visits, the sirens wailed, and he spent an hour or so in a shelter as U.S. bombers raked the capital...
...custom, Bernard M. Baruch, 74, sat on a park bench one day last week -this time in London. He was not, as he usually is when sitting on his park bench in Washington, D.C., "in" to reporters. He would talk to only one: a man from Stars & Stripes. Corporal A. Victor Lasky and Baruch sat chatting together for a while, continued the conversation in Baruch's plush Claridge suite. When the phone rang (it was Churchill calling), Baruch, friend of the Prime Minister for 25 years, begged off for the moment. For Bernie Baruch had a point he wanted...
...Jima the battle ground forward, slowly, bloodily but steadily. According to Japanese custom, the enemy garrison, now estimated at an original 20,000, was fighting a rear-guard action with no hope of reinforcement or relief...
According to American custom, the battlefield had been isolated. Throughout the bombardment and invasion of Iwo, air strikes from carriers in Admiral Raymond Ames Spruance's Fifth Fleet kept Japanese heads down on Chichi Jima in the Bonins, where a single airstrip had a potential nuisance value. Last week, for the second time, Vice Admiral Marc Andrew Mitscher took the famed fast carrier Task Force 58 into Japanese home waters, and sent off air strikes against airfields around Tokyo. This time coordination with Major General Curtis E. ("Old Ironpants") LeMay's 21st Bomber Command was closer...