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...like the United States?" in a gracious manner, he became more exuberant when he mentioned Peru, for it is still quite apparent that Capt. Higueras longs for his home in Miraflores, a small suburb just outside of Lima. The reason? A beautiful wife (this is not hearsay; reference, his pinup pictures of her) and a three and one-half year...
...years-belated shock came in a joint Army-Navy release, based on factual, eyewitness, non-hearsay accounts from Lieut. Colonel William E. Dyess and two others who escaped from Jap imprisonment and torture last April. From their reports, the Army & Navy concluded that of the 22,300 Americans taken captive on Bataan and Corregidor, at least 7,700 had been tortured, starved or shot to death in the first year of imprisonment. The number of dead among the 28,000 Filipino captives was incalculable...
This week the Archbishop's Collier's articles appeared in book form (Action This Day; Scribner; $2.75). His former opinions of Franco have been somewhat edited, are now attributed to hearsay: "I had been told by some who had known him all through his life that the Generalissimo was a Godfearing, serious and intelligent man, striving to do what he thought was best for Spain...
Will the Senator Pipe Down? Thus, for five hours, Senator Wheeler spoke to empty seats and took his heckling. Though his evidence was hearsay, he had made three points: 1) many a Government bureau is overstaffed, 2) many a war plant, particularly those with cost-plus contracts, has used occupational deferments to hoard unnecessary workers, 3) if U.S. manpower were used more efficiently, fewer fathers would be drafted. But Senator Wheeler had changed no one's mind about his bill to defer fathers. At the unanimous urging of Army, Navy, Selective Service and Manpower Commission, Congress will do nothing...
...Walker's main sources of information are the New York pressagents who daily send him sheets of stuff liberally sprinkled with the names and doings of their own clients. Most of the "news" items they submit are based on mere hearsay. But like the military experts who predicted war, knowing that in the end they would be right, Walker prints much of what the pressagents send in, knowing well he will find hits among the misses. One safeguard against error: a refusal to accept contributions from people he does not know and trust...