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...Christmas Blubber." With gay disregard of military protocol, Molly had drawn up a big guest list. It included Mrs. Hoyt Vandenberg, wife of the Air Force chief (who was off on an inspection tour in Korea); the formidable Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, a doyenne of Washington society; Mrs. Cyrus Ching; Mr. & Mrs. Leslie Biffle; Lord and Lady Tedder-and, of course-Colonel May. A few of the guests were missing, but surveying the crowd, Molly thought it best to move to General Vandenberg's own office...
...Survival. A few hours after Chou's reply was in hand, Secretary of State Dean Acheson belabored it as "an outright rejection . . . still further evidence of [Red China's] contemptuous disregard of a worldwide demand for peace." Next day at Lake Success, Warren Austin summoned the free nations again to "united resolution" against aggression...
Miami U. is supposedly inhabited by 10,000 men and women, but after picking up certain other information I shall disregard this fact. What Miami had done could have been accomplished with an enrollment of approximately 100, provided that a majority were...
Colonel Charles P. Summerall Jr. and Colonel Stephen E. Stancisko, commanding officers of the R.O.T.C. at Harvard and Yale respectively, are both seasoned soldiers who would never make it a habit to disregard suggestions from topside. But when it came to the latest Army Department gimmick for luring college men into R.O.T.C., Colonels Summerall and Stancisko drew the line. The gimmick: a stickily written little comic book which R.O.T.C. commanders were authorized to distribute to incoming freshmen...
...fine disregard for the conventional flow of time. He can dismiss a war or a death with a sentence or two yet spend pages on a picture of Tabitha disciplining her child. This makes for a breathless narrative, intentionally short on description and drama. But although "A Fearful Joy" rolls this narrative past its readers in a headlong rush, it stops frequently to breathe, to question, and to laugh...