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...educated German man-of-action, he manages to convey his problem effectively. His irritation with his master and his hesitation to act upon it seem more real than his exaggerated decisiveness with maps and binoculars. Yet if Rommel seems almost too fine a soldier, Hollywood can be forgiven this concession to folk lore in gratitude for portraying the man as well...
After Australia's Davis Cup triumph, Australians and New Zealanders could be forgiven the notion that tennis down under is the best in the world. Then the pros came to town, and local pride went back into the marsupial pouch. Aussie Ken Rosewall hardly belonged on the court with Pro Champion Pancho Gonzales...
...zeal that bordered on perfectionism, Ike threw himself anew into soldiering. Serving nearly three years (1922-24) in Panama with a little-known man of fire, Brigadier General Fox Conner, Ike did such a stringent job as executive officer that many of his juniors have neither forgotten nor forgiven. In his spare hours he buried himself in extracurricular study of maps, charts and treatises of the great historical campaigns prescribed by his mentor Fox Conner. Night after night (Mamie went home to Denver to have another child-son John) the intense young major and the spark-eyed general debated...
Last week in a public meeting, the three county commissions heeded a growing public uproar, in effect kicked Dr. Coggins out of her job. She had had no hearing; the protests of state officials and a couple of local residents that her "indiscretion" be "forgiven" were overruled. "Fire her! Fire her!" cried Jesse Lott of Monticello from the audience. "When we give one inch, we are going to give the whole thing. It is time to stand up and be white men, not jellybacks." When one of Dr. Coggins' friends asked a county commissioner if he had not eaten...
...when he said, "Stevenson is too defeatist to win." As if that were not enough, he added that Stevenson was allied with "Reactionaries." The topper came a few weeks ago when Truman spoke in defense of Alger Hiss. For these remarks, Truman's opponents say, he can never be forgiven, but can he ever again be useful to a Stevenson ticket...