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Generals and Yes Men. At their headquarters behind the front, modern generals must often rely on the word of their subordinates. With a half-dozen relayings, an official report may be progressively dressed up somewhat for the "old man's" benefit. When he found that Haig's Intelligence was overreporting German casualties in World War I, Winston Churchill stormed: "The temptation to tell a chief in a great position the things he most likes to hear is one of the commonest explanations of mistaken policy. Thus the outlook of the leader on whose decision fateful events depend...
...picked up an old Haig and Haig bottle and sniffed at it absent mindedly. A rude knock on the door shattered his abstraction. He wheeled around to come face-to-face with a brand new cherub of about 17, who set down the bag he was carrying and looked around the room possessively. Vag stifled a snarl. "Are you my roommate?" the Freshman asked, amiably. Vag took the splinter of goal post off the wall, flipped his cigarette into the fireplace and strode out of the room, closing the door behind...
Fragile, green-eyed Cinemactress Greer Garson overdid patriotism on a high-pressure war-bond sales tour of 20-odd mining towns in ten days. She sold $10 million in war bonds but wound up exhausted in a Washington hospital. Earl Haig, 24, son of the British World War I commander, turned up as a prisoner of war in Italy. Feather-haired, candy-faced Hinda Wassau, veteran stripteuse, swore she was going to join the WAACs. "I don't want to hold any office," she said. "I just want to start fresh from scratch." Cinedirector Cecil B. DeMille, veteran showman...
Second Lieut. George Alexander Eugene Douglas Haig, 24, son of the famed British commander in World War I, was reported missing in the Middle East, believed to have been taken prisoner...
...Sundays. Any other day of the week he is glad to oblige. In 1918 he observed that, if anyone ever asked him what he did in World War I, he could say that he stopped it, for it was he, as a member of Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig's staff, who wrote and signed the order for the Armistice. If Malta stands this time, no one will have to ask "Old Dob Dob" what he did in World...