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Light Touch. In Sacramento, Anthony Swinkunas robbed a man of his wallet, examined it in the glare of an auto's headlights, discovered too late that the auto was an occupied police...
...walked to the microphone he grinned, and the applause went up again. But he looked pale and nervous in the glare of the floodlights; when he began to speak his voice almost failed. He had worked on the speech for days, had reworked it the night before in his suite at the Dorchester, and had committed it to memory like a high-school valedictorian. For a few minutes he sounded like one. But as he went on, he got better, and the crowd began to realize that Ike was doing all right...
...high, airy office in Manila, with the glare of summer Sun cut down by Venetian blinds, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur conferred with General Joseph W. Stilwell. The commander of all Army forces in the Pacific and the commander of all the Army's ground forces had a knotty problem to resolve: how to deploy more than 3,500,000 men for the final onslaught against Japan...
...Trumans moved into Blair House, the 135-year-old mansion in which the U.S. lodges visiting diplomats, heads of state, distinguished officials. Ahead, for calm, shy, friendly Bess Truman, lay the responsibilities of a President's wife; for both the First Lady and her daughter the glare of publicity. Newspapers immediately began to speculate on the chances of Mary Margaret eventually affording the capital the excitement of a White House wedding. After Eleanor Roosevelt had had time to pack, Bess and Mary Margaret Truman would move into the Executive Mansion...
...Washington's Chamber of Commerce Building, in the eye-winking glare of flash bulbs, three men signed their names to what may be a historic document. The men: U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Eric Johnston, C.I.O. President Philip Murray and A.F. of L. President William Green. The document: a labor-management charter for industrial peace in the postwar world...