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Back in civvies, the U.A.W. stumbled into a 4 a.m. return train to Detroit. The 83rd rank-&-file passed judgment: "Good guys." Said Walter Reuther: "We're going home tired in body but determined to give the boys in our fighting army the fighting equipment they need. The boys...
Shortly before his death Brigadier General Hugh ("Iron Pants") Johnson made a prophecy about his friend Major General George Smith ("Old Blood and Guts") Patton Jr.: "Critics say he is reckless and impetuous. That's what was said at West Point. He says he is going to command an...
"I can get quite lyrical about the University of North Carolina," exclaims Howard Mumford Jones, who taught at Chapel Hill from 1925 to 1930; "they're really doing things down there." At Chapel Hill, Jones met Paul Green, the Carolina dramatist; halfway through a performance of Green's "The Field...
When President Roosevelt returned from Casablanca, White wrote: "Well, it is now 60 hours since the Old Smiler returned to the White House from his great adventure. . . . Biting nails-good, hard, bitter Republican nails-we are compelled to admit that Franklin Roosevelt is the most unaccountable and on the whole...
The Officer Mentality. Osami Nagano represents the most aggressive, hearty, popular officer type Japan possesses: he is a kind of Greater East Asian Halsey. He is big for a Japanese-about 5 ft. 9 in., and built like a barrel. He is famous for being able to roll liquor past...