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Although there is no August lull for the candidates, there is one for the voter. While the nominees and their strategists are busily planning ways & means of getting the voter's attention and his vote, he can inspect the bare bones of the presidential campaign, the chief advantages that each party and its candidate have before the heavy speechmaking...
...young second lieutenant of infantry was about to inspect the guard. He invited Mamie to walk with him. Mamie did. But when he blithely telephoned for a date the next evening, Mamie, a girl with quite a few beaus in town and garrison, had to refuse. Young Ike persevered, finally got a date for a night a whole month off. They were married eight months later...
Last September the Communist and anti-Communist prisoners waged a bloody 30-day battle for control. Kangaroo courts in many of the compounds tried, sentenced and executed opponents of the controlling faction, leaving bodies neatly laid out next morning for the U.N. guards to inspect. The struggle went on in the hospital camp on the mainland, near Pusan as well as on bloody Koje Island. Under such conditions, no fair or complete balloting on political preference was possible. Washington apparently did not realize this. Washington knew only that "voluntary repatriation" was morally impeccable, and also politically shrewd and foresighted...
...Eighth Army Commander General James A. Van Fleet, on Koje to inspect the new precautions, everything looked fine & dandy, as it has all along to him. "I don't think there will be any more trouble," Soldier Van Fleet announced optimistically. "Bull" Boatner thought otherwise. "We can't get into those compounds," he fretted. "We can't take a roll-call. We don't know what they're plotting." But plotting they were...
Fortnight ago, Director Eaton arrived in Florence to inspect paintings by 13 of the 32 Italian artists invited to submit them. When the pictures were unveiled, it seemed that a mistake had been made. Six of the portraits did not smile at all. The rest had, at best, sickly grins. Said Eaton: "None of these is any good for Forest Lawn. You'll notice all these paintings, even the smiling ones, have a kind of sad look and a definitely European face. Now, what I'm looking for is a Christ filled with radiance and looking upward with...