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Around the 4th Infantry Division noncommissioned officers' club at Fort Lewis, Wash. last winter, the word was out: "See Coogan if you want to go overseas," maybe to a cushy assignment in Paris. Sergeant First Class William Coogan, at 38 a sharp-looking, 14-year regular with a good record, had the expert and ready assistance of Specialist Fifth Class George B. Huller, at 23 a six-year man with an equally fine record, on duty as a personnel clerk at division headquarters. Theirs was the job of filling in the names when Pentagon orders called for overseas billets...
...justified" the summit meeting that Moscow demands. Presumably the diplomatic job at Geneva for the foreign ministers was now 1) to pose their difficulties rather than to dispose of them, 2) to "justify" the summit by making it clear that the West did not have to go there under duress...
...major union meetings last week, the nation's mine workers (680,000 members) and railwaymen (370,000) took the same position. And over the BBC a somewhat chastened Frank Cousins made a promise of his own: should the Labor Party Conference next fall reject his view, he would go along with Gaitskell, who still seemed to be very much in control...
Presidential recollections go on and on. Last week the Washington Post and Times Herald drew some lively ones from old (70) Headwaiter William Reid, long the Pullman Co.'s major-domo in charge of private railway cars for the White House and State Department. Reid's bipartisan White House favorites: Harry Truman and Grace Coolidge. Of Harry: "He got up every morning at 6, and we'd stop the train so he could take his walk." Of Gourmand Warren Gamaliel Harding: "He'd eat anything." Of Calvin Coolidge: "He never used to say much, except when...
...eyes follow you at the capitol. That's very important. [Culbert] Olson and [Earl] Warren-the eyes follow you. I said to Booth during the sittings, I said, 'Mr. Booth, please, put the eyes like Earl Warren's. I'll give you the money to go to Sacramento to see Warren's eyes!'" The esthetic quarrel will be resolved with Booth collecting his money for a canvas probably destined for indefinite storage in the basement of San Francisco's Palace of the Legion of Honor. Cried Knight's wife Virginia: "Goodie looks...