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...President, thus architecting a room in history for each of the past Presidents, is designing his own place beside his 31 predecessors. As future visitors to that Presidential museum gaze at the mementos of Franklin Roosevelt, they will be well aware that he was an extraordinary man, with an extraordinary consciousness of history and of his part in it. But those future visitors may be able to answer with more assurance than the citizens of 1943 the question: How well and truly did President Roosevelt and the American people carry on the great heritage of the Republic...
...porpoise loves the prow of a ship, Shaw splashed happily in the public gaze. But Mrs. Shaw once told a reporter: "I am never interviewed, never photographed, and one of my special desires is that no newspaper should ever mention my name." She was the one woman in Britain, someone said, who put all her brains into remaining unknown. According to her own estimate, she spent "a third of my time looking after my husband...
...disappeared like Camelot fading into the mists. We drove our jeep around a cliff to where an ambulance had halted beneath a ledge. Beyond that no car could advance, for the road was mined. By the ambulance lay a soldier who looked up at us with the tender, inquiring gaze the eyes of wounded men often seem to wear. A first-aid man gently scooped him up and deposited him in his butcher's wagon...
Stand up there on the ramp behind the press-box. Cast your eyes over that magnificent panorama of baseball, football, and softball fields. Then, gaze towards the Field House. Land, land, land. All the way to the fences and off into the purple haze of Brighton it stretches. What a nightmare for Henry George...
...going to be washed ashore. RIPTIDE's the name of the mimeographed paper put out each week or so for the WAVES at Radcliffe, so that this column is in a sense a digest of that, neatly trimmed at the edges and censored to meet, the less tolerant gaze of our male confreres...