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...days when the fog lies still and heavy over the harbors, when the damp beads the dock lines and the only sound is the creak of fenders against pilings, New England's fishermen can still strike up an argument over the loss of the steamer Portland. Her sinking, with the loss of all hands, is New England's most famous shipwreck, and the 1898 gale in which she went down is still known, from Nantucket to Bangor, as "the Portland gale...
Promise in Potsdam. There had been rumors that publication of Eisenhower's book was carefully held up until after the election. But Ike's only stick of political dynamite has already become pretty damp powder. In Potsdam one day, Ike was out driving with President Truman, whom he had found "sincere, earnest, and a most pleasant person with whom to deal." Said Truman, all of a sudden: "General, there is nothing that you may want that I won't try to help you get. That definitely and specifically includes the presidency in 1948." Ike says he replied...
Thirty years ago, France's finest orchestra, the 90-year-old Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris, was embarked on a U.S. warship, destination New York. At their first concert in the Metropolitan Opera House, damp-eyed crowds cheered, for it was wartime, and the orchestra started off an evening of French masters with an unforgettable lump-in-the-throat performance of La Marseillaise. Banker Otto H. Kahn made an appropriate speech: "If we ever failed to understand her, the great soul of France now stands revealed in splendor...
However, the atmosphere of university study serves to damp predictions of disaster or heaven-on-earth, the President said. A scholar has the luxury to weigh events and suspend judgment. "It might not be far wrong to say that throughout the University the major portion of the efforts of the student is directed to studying problems or situations, not with the purpose of learning the 'right' answer, but with the avowed intent of evoking a critical attitude and stimulating imaginative thought...
...Babe went to the hospital. He was desperately ill-cancer-and sport editors everywhere prepared obituaries. But he got back on his feet. Ghostly but smiling, he was well enough to attend a Babe Ruth Day at Yankee Stadium. The Babe said a few words before a damp-eyed throng of 58,339. His speech was piped into baseball parks the U.S. over...