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...tennis 'fans went to England's famed, bomb-struck stadium to see a match between U.S. and British Empire service teams. It was only a feeble nicker of the gaudy past, but there was a sprinkling of former Davis Cup players to bring back memories. Sergeant Charles Hare, a Briton who is now in the U.S. Army, teamed with Sergeant George Lott for one American victory. The best tennis of the day was played by Staff Sergeant Bob Harmon, who won his singles match with the veteran English pro, R.A.F. Squadron Leader Dan Maskell. The team score...
Wrote the New York Times's Anne O'Hare McCormick: "The remarkable thing is that the military commanders do not come back as conquering heroes. They come back as war-haters, successful soldiers who abhor the business in which they have been engaged. . . . These are conquerors who do not glorify war. . . . They are moved or outraged by human suffering. They are individuals, and they see other people as individuals. Their democracy is not only one of the head but of the heart...
...York Times's Anne O'Hare McCormick deplored the press's tendency to play every conference disagreement as a "crisis." She blamed it on the presence in San Francisco of inexperienced reporters and delegates who "found it hard at best to drum up daily interest in a drafting job." Her verdict: "There has been far more agreement than disagreement at San Francisco...
...know how it is," Reynard confided to Grimbart. "One cannot always keep himself as holy as if he lived in a monastery. The fault is not always with me. Take, for example, that confounded Hare. The rascal was as fat as butter. I loved that Hare but he would go scampering around under my nose, and the time came when affection was no longer a match for appetite...
...reporting was at this low level. There were also responsible men like Walter Lippmann, David Lawrence, Jay Hayden. The New York Times's star-studded eight-man staff, topped by Managing Editor Edwin L. James, included Anne O'Hare McCormick, Arthur Krock, James ("Scotty") Reston. British newspapers sent 43 men; the Russians, seven; the Chinese, five...