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...Battle of Monterrey. Taylor not only hotly defended his actions, but wrote a scathing letter criticizing the Administration. The letter was made public and Taylor was reprimanded. He refused to be silenced. He sent off another bitter letter of protest, which was later widely distributed. While still in a huff, Taylor refused to meet with the general in chief, Winfield Scott, who was planning a Mexican expedition and wanted to use some of Taylor's troops. In retaliation, Scott stripped Taylor of most of his command. With his remaining troops, Taylor went on. to win a resounding victory...
...days after Lex Barker, cinema's tenth Tarzan, signed a marriage license to wed flame-haired Cinemactress Arlene (Watch the Birdie) Dahl, she suddenly called the whole thing off, flew back to Hollywood in a huff. Tarzan followed in another plane, found her, and promised breathless tabloid readers a happy ending as they headed back to Manhattan together. Explained Arlene: "What actually happened was that two dog-tired people just emotionally exploded over a simple misunderstanding...
...face of the walkout was still unshaken when he flew to Key West to see President Truman. Before boarding his plane-and later at a press conference which followed his visit with the President-he summed up his impression of the dispute: labor had quit in a huff because it could not control manpower allocation between industry and the armed forces. Later, in Washington, he simply said: "I'm damned if I know what they want...
When Editor Michael Straight of the New Republic picked up his telephone in Washington one morning last week, London was on the wire. His caller was his old friend Kingsley Martin, editor of the New Statesman and Nation. Editor Martin was in a high huff about a "rather dirty trick," to wit, the liberal New Republic, which had long seen eye to eye with the New Statesman, had turned on Fellow-Liberal Martin in a most unpleasant manner...
Organized labor struck against the mobilization program last week. At a sullen, midnight meeting of the Wage Stabilization Board, outvoted, unable to get their demands, labor's three WSB delegates went into an elaborate huff and quit the board. By their drastic action, taken with apparent disregard for the consequences, labor's bosses brought half of the Administration's price-wage machinery to a standstill, confronted War Mobilizer Charles Wilson with a war in his own backyard, imperiled the nation's whole economy...