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...that same fall noticed the president playing touch football with his sons in the Yard behind his house on Quincy Street. According to a CRIMSON of the fall of 1933, the football-playing president "appeared to be enjoying himself hugely." The president's athletic pretensions have not always lain along such hap-hazard lines in the summer of 1937 he went with a group to climb in the Sierra Nevadas "real rope stuff" Conant refers to it. The next two summers he climbed in the Canadian Rockies and then was elected to the American Alpine Club. A wrenched back...
...happiness does not last. The teacher turns Guillaume away in the end because he will not traffic with "aristocrats." In a scene of gruesome effectiveness, Guillaume and his father drown themselves. "In [the boy's] suffering body," concludes Mauriac, "a human spirit had lain unawakened...
Patient Kijowski had lain swathed in pressure bandages for seven weeks, when he overheard a conversation: a doctor was explaining to a patient in the next bed that skin from any donor can be used for temporary grafts, but that it eventually sloughs off. For a permanent graft, only unburned skin from the patient's own body will do-or, added the doctor, skin from an identical twin. "Doctor," interrupted Leo Kijowski, "I've got a twin...
Scarcely were the words out of his mouth than Ridgway was proved a greater exaggerator and hastier reporter than Hanley. In Manhattan, a reporter picked up a report which had lain for two weeks in U.N.'s Manhattan headquarters. It had been submitted by Ridgway on Nov. 12-two days before Hanley made his announcement. As U.N. Commander for Korea, Ridgway reported not 6,000 U.S. atrocity victims (a figure he had indicated was unwarranted by solid evidence), nor 365 (the number he had said in Tokyo was proved), but "approximately 8,000 U.S. military personnel . . . reported killed...
...often told his parents: "You count what you've got left, not what you've lost." It was a good thing that Ed Reeves felt that way. In the bitter fighting around the Changjin Reservoir last winter, he had been hit by a Communist mortar burst, had lain helpless in the sub-zero weather for nine days. Army surgeons had to take off both of his frozen feet and the fingers on both hands...