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...last time Churchill saw Franklin Roosevelt was on board the U.S. cruiser Quincy, in the harbor of Alexandria, after the Yalta Conference. The President seemed "placid and frail," to have only a "slender contact with life." The first time Churchill met Harry Truman was at Potsdam, ten weeks after the V-E day which Roosevelt did not live to see. Truman impressed the British Prime Minister with his "gay, precise, sparkling manner and obvious power of decision...
...most talked-of art critic alive today is France's frail, adventurous André Malraux. When his three-volume Psychology of Art was published in the U.S. in 1949-51, it was welcomed with raves-and a good deal of honest bewilderment. Wrote Critic Edmund Wilson: "It is hard to judge very brilliant books, which may dazzle, deafen and stun when they explode under our noses, but [this is] perhaps one of the really great books of our time." Malraux himself was not so pleased with the book; it suffered from poor organization and a turbulent, over-intricate style...
After that, month after month, Sikorsky toiled, sketched, planned and studied in his personal struggle to conquer the air. He built another helicopter. He built a frail little fixed-wing airplane. They refused to fly, too. He built still another airplane, the 52, and after days of taxiing and trying the controls he got its flimsy, bicycle-wheel undercarriage off the ground, and began trying to learn to fly. After eight minutes in the air he tried a turn; the S-2 crashed from a height of 80 feet and was completely ruined. Sikorsky limped away from the wreck...
...Malolos in Bulacan Province, wan, frail President Elpidio Quirino pleaded with the voters. "Give me another chance, if only to complete all the projects you want me to complete." In Manila, Ramon Magsaysay solicited votes in confident tones. "The Filipino people want back their self-respect, their sense of honor and their dignity. They can have these things back only by replacing those who have taken them away...
Tanned and smiling but still somewhat frail looking, Anthony Eden reported back for work at Whitehall last week after six months' absence (for an operation in Boston, a recuperation cruise on the Mediterranean). Landing in London just an hour after Sir Winston Churchill returned from his own Riviera vacation, Eden arrived amid rumors that he would not return to the Foreign Office, was about to be kicked upstairs as Deputy Prime Minister to Churchill...