Word: hansons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only place where Army Public Relations had a public-relations problem. From the other great theater of Army operations, communiqués passed along by General MacArthur's loyal press chief, Colonel LeGrande A. Diller, had aroused deep doubts-in the New York Times's military expert, Hanson Baldwin, among others-about the General's accuracy in reporting the facts. A recent communiqué asserted that during the Leyte campaign the enemy had "sustained 82,554 casualties." On the basis of the document itself, that precise-sounding total was 58% estimated. U.S. casualties were reported...
David Josefovich Zaslavsky is the Westbrook Pegler of the Russian press. He has slashed at General Douglas MacArthur, Military Critic Hanson Baldwin, the late Wendell Willkie, William C. Bullitt. Last fortnight Zaslavsky slashed at Soviet bureaucrats. His theme: the scarcity of nipples in Russia...
This weekend promises to be well filled with dances and such. First off this afternoon there's the affair at St. Ben's Center, then tomorrow, dances at Curry and Pine Manor (see Mrs. Inglis for reservations). We saw Professor Hanson about this former affair and he promises eider to all ensigns and light homework for all middies interested (see Mrs. Bonn for reservations...
Only now are various and sundry reports trickling in from this dance of two weeks ago. Professor Hanson's daughter was out for the commissioning but we didn't have the opportunity to question her closely. Maestro Jim Thompson told of just flocks of starry-eyed actresses (Curry Dramatic School) using their latest approaches on the assembled multitude. All we know is that the cider was good and lasted through the evening in spite of Earl Tahner's long draughts...
Wendell Willkie, Hanson W. Baldwin, William C. Bullitt and others who have been slapped down by the Russian press were joined by unexpected company last week. Soundly slapped down by Izvestia were British ex-Pacifist philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad (The Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of the Better World) and Harold Laski, British leftist economist, friend of Russia and sometime White House guest. Said Izvestia: "Meddling advisers." Their offense: signing a British National Peace Council petition urging a "strategy of mercy" toward Germany...