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Shirt Sleeves. Behind a police motorcycle escort, he rolled up to the Astor the next afternoon, just 20 minutes behind schedule. There was a great cheer as he strode to the platform of the Astor ballroom and flung a big brown briefcase beside the rostrum. Grinning broadly, Joe plunged extemporaneously into an hour and a quarter's attack on Communism in Government, broken only momentarily at the halfway mark when he took off his coat and rolled up his shirt sleeves...
...escort of motorcycle police guided the cortege of 22 black limousines to the cemetery. In the bright noon sunlight, dappling through Japanese plum trees, the casket was placed on a grassy knoll before the marble-columned mausoleum where Hearst's parents lie. Bishop Block read a poem, The Song of the River, which W.R. himself had written for his papers...
...Drove down to Washington's cavernous Union Station behind a motorcycle escort to turn over the ornate presidential reception room for VIPs to travel-weary G.I.s. Said the President: "The people who are in fact 'very important people'-just about the most important people of all-[are] the men & women of every rank and in every branch of our armed services . . . They have not been getting the right sort of treatment in some of our towns and cities." Also on the program: Margaret Truman's good friend and sometime beau, Lawyer Marvin Braverman, now a member...
...designer's name). Son of a rabbi, he learned his trade for ten years, got his big chance after the late '30s purges, finally hit pay dirt in 1943 with his light, highly maneuverable LA5 ("The wooden savior of Stalingrad"). Now working on long-range, single-jet escort fighters (LA-17) and twin-jet night fighters...
...fighter series was rated by French pilots as the best short-range interceptors of World War II. A daredevil and woman-chaser, he likes to drive fast, test his own planes, has had so many narrow escapes that Stalin gave him a Zis (Packard) sedan and restraining motorcycle escort. Now working on advanced rocket (YAK-21) and swept-wing jet (YAK-25) interceptors...