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...Grand Island, Neb., a small cluster of people spied the candidate through the train window. Said Willkie's aide-decamp, boyishly exuberant Lem Jones, "They're waving at you." Willkie, engrossed in his talk, gave the platform crowd an absent jerk of the head, a quick flip of the hand-and went on talking. Newsmen thought of the Big Hello which Franklin Roosevelt would have given...
Haushofer and Hitler. World War I raised young Haushofer to the rank of major general. He had a young aide-decamp named Rudolf Hess, who in the post war years attended his lectures on geography at the University of Munich. When the Nazi Beer Hall Putsch failed (1923), Haushofer hid Hess in his mountain home. When Hess was imprisoned with Hitler, Haushofer visited them there...
Yankee Doodle tries hard to squeeze 50 years of Cohan Americana into two hours and six minutes of celluloid. It succeeds best with the early years-the tough, tender, Irish clannishness of The Four Cohans (Father Walter Huston, Mother Rosemary DeCamp, Daughter Jeanne Cagney,† Son Jimmy) and their variety act; Songwriter Cohan's accidental partnership with Sam H. Harris (Richard Whorf), his ambiguous first meeting with his future wife (Joan Leslie), who came backstage while young Cohan was playing his mother's father in Buffalo, N.Y. "I'm 18," she confided...
...Sentenced to ten months in jail were two Presbyterian missionaries in Korea, Dr. De Witt S. Lowe and the Rev. E. Otto DeCamp. The charge: removing Shinto god shrines from the homes of their servants...
Sirs: TIME Dec. 25, p. 26: "obsquatulate his opponent." NUTS. Webster's 20th Century Unabridged Dictionary does not even give "obsquatulate," does give "absquatulate" meaning to leave suddenly, to decamp. Says it's slang...