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Then, after 55 days of hearings, often disorderly, in which 2,500,000 words of conflicting testimony had been heard, the case of Sergeant Judson H. Smith came to an end. Firelight from an open grate flickered on Smith's grey, lined face as the court president, Colonel Louis P. Leone, announced the verdict: guilty of making prisoners eat excessive amounts of food, of administering castor oil, of two charges of felonious assault and four charges of simple assault (i.e., beatings). The sentence: dishonorable discharge and three years at hard labor...
...Prime Minister rose to greet his guest. He carried his 71 years lightly. His voice was firm, his hands steady, his face and fingers just perceptibly wrinkled. He walked toward the grate to give the fire some encouragement. Swiftly he moved the screen aside, thrust the poker into the coals, put on a thick glove and tossed a fresh chunk of coal squarely into the center of the fire. He made these casual, hostly gestures with neatness and dispatch. But as he was settling again in the deep sofa, something disturbed the Prime Minister. He hopped up, shifted the fire...
...next day the talks continued. This time real logs burned in the grate. Above the mantelpiece an engraving of Lord Byron, whose experiences with Greek liberation had been even more distressing than Winston Churchill's, stared down at the peacemakers. The delegates laughed at each other's jokes, smoked each other's cigarets. Communist Secretary Siantos surprised the Government delegates by blandly accepting their chief peace condition, the disarming and disbanding of ELAS. But Secretary Siantos had a condition of his own: an amnesty for all, not merely some, of the ELAS prisoners in the Government...
...excitement, jostled slowly toward trolley-loading platforms, the masses of Government workers going back to their offices. Inside the Executive Mansion the President shed his dripping coat and hat and immediately went to his office for a press conference. The President's good humor had a steady, coal-grate glow this morning. The conference began with a burst of laughter. Franklin Roosevelt had just informed the men in the front row that he had no news-and they had replied, "Thank...
...brigadier general had a face like a sharp ax and a back like a broomstick. He was all that the Academy taught its cadets an officer should be. He had three daughters and one son. In 1915, a live coal fell from a basket-grate in a dining room in the Presidio at San Francisco, set fire to the waxed floors. Pershing's wife and three daughters, Helen, Anne, Mary, were burned to death. All that was left to Brigadier General Pershing was his six-year...