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Instead, in his third major report to the nation on the state of the war, the President this week contrived a compromise. He told the U.S., in broadest outline, the sorry truth of the present, but he pointed to a happier truth in the future...
...wounded men who were in good enough shape to care about such things. They improvised presents: cartons of cigarets, razor blades, tooth paste, socks, candy, ties, handkerchiefs, anything they could find. All afternoon they worked wrapping them, in fancy Christmas papers removed from packages they had done up, in happier days, for their own families...
...Wylie, British novelist now in the U.S., said she was convinced that though "America has had an uneasy feeling about war, she will be much happier for the experience...
...paused at Manila on his way to Washington last week, he paid his respects to Tommy Hart. Murmured he: "It is my business to keep the Admiral idle." The Admiral, weathered, wrinkled, tough as a winter apple, smiled broadly. As full of energy as a boy, he is far happier when he is bouncing around on inspection tours aboard his tooth-shaking, 245-foot yacht The Isabel than when he sits in his shore office in Manila's Mars-man Building, overlooking the Bay where most of his fleet anchors. According to precedent, he should have bowed...
...biggest press news in Washington last week was that the "White House gang" - the little group of reporters whose beat is covering the President - was hopping mad at Franklin Roosevelt. Most of them felt that the President had played them for suckers and they were no happier when other newsmen rubbed...