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...Early last week, alerted to De Sapio's visit, six top party leaders gathered in the Los Angeles hotel suite of the state's No. 1 Democrat, Attorney General Edmund ("Pat") Brown. Problem: What to do about De Sapio? Their solution was sharp and bright as a knife: start a draft-Stevenson movement...
...state, Truman smiled, replied: "There are three or four good men in the state of Illinois." Then, having dealt Harriman a pat on the back and Stevenson something sharper, Harry Truman left Albany. Ave Harriman, who had publicly pledged his support to Stevenson last summer, turned the knife: in a TV interview at week's end, while disclaiming any intent to run himself, he said that he felt no obligation to support Adlai Stevenson...
Last week, just before graduation, the academy added a new course for its fourth-year men: a series of lectures on etiquette (e.g., how to eat with a knife and fork at Western banquets, how to choose a wife and treat women). With that final bit of polishing, K.M.A.'s first 157 graduates were off for nine years of compulsory service in the army and to their places as the leaders of Korea's military and technological life. They were, as their superintendent, Major General Chang Kuk Chang, 31, admitted, as bright a bunch of second lieutenants...
...with flyers as a leader who would fly anything they could. Promoted to a big command early in World War II, he led his Blenheim bombers on one more mission, was shot down over France. He slipped away from the Germans three times, once killing three captors with a knife and the butt of a sentry's rifle, another time impersonating an Irish Republican Army man (and spouting Urdu when asked to show that he could speak Gaelic). He slept one night in an absent German general's bed, watched from the bedroom window the Nazis' parade...
...taunts the girl that the boy seeks marriage only as a way of gaining citizenship; he tries to make the neighborhood think the boy is a homosexual. Still thwarted, he blabs about the cousins' illegal entry to the immigration officers, and in a final rage draws a knife in a fight that results in his own death...