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...signs are the work of Truman Miller, 43, president of Kinston's Serv-Air Aviation Corp. and a man who knows his flyers. "Any airfield, from the repair shops to the soda fountain, is a rumor factory," says Miller. "They fly in and out and leave the damndest stories you ever heard...
...Seattle last week for their annual get-together. They were far younger than the general run of medical specialists -mostly in their 303-and so devoted to learning that they packed the meeting rooms for no fewer than 84 self-improvement lectures during the week. "They're the damndest eager beavers you ever saw," said an oldster (41) among them. They were the members of the American Society of Anesthesiologists...
...probably a million people who could have done the job better than I did it, but I had the job and I had to do it, and I always quote an epitaph on a tombstone in a cemetery in Tombstone, Ariz.: Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest...
...Rain of Questions. Harry Truman's damndest, as he saw it, took in a lot of territory. Aside from the prevention of World War III, he thought, the greatest accomplishment of his Administration has been keeping employment at full tilt. Said he: We have been able to fix the income of the country so that it is fairly distributed -an even economy, well-balanced so everybody has a fair chance. And after the rearmament program is finished a Point Four program-if it raises the standards of living of the underdeveloped parts of the world at least...
Nonetheless, he called himself "the damndest optimist that ever lived." And in his stoic dedication to his vocation, he certainly acted as though he was. When an early critic accused him of seeing the world as a "prison house," he retorted: "The world is not a 'prison house' but a kind of spiritual kindergarten, where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell God with the wrong blocks...