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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...budget was at the top of his work list. With Budget Director James E. Webb and Assistant Director Frank Pace Jr., he dug into his daily fiscal sessions with the stern attitude of a bank examiner. He startled Webb and Pace with his grasp of budget problems. He piqued military chieftains by refusing to raise the lid on the $15 billion limit which he had clamped on 1949 military expenditures. He was firmly convinced that a larger amount would do more harm than good to the nation's economic structure...
...head of the U.N. Security Council, Juan Atilio Bramuglia had put the name of Argentina high on the list of big-time diplomacy. Few Argentines knew that. President Juan Domingo Peron had told Argentina's controlled press and radio to ignore Bramuglia. The cold-shoulder treatment extended even to Bramuglia's visit to Washington, where last week he talked with President Harry Truman and top Government officials...
...Novel" that everybody has taken for granted ever since V-day. But a few writers did try to record their personal experiences, particularly young (25) Norman Mailer, a Pacific veteran whose The Naked and The Dead, a rugged, stormy first novel, whirled straight to the top of the bestseller list and stayed there. Irwin Shaw's The Young Lions also made a great splash, though with far less literary justification...
...dropped thoughtfully into a chair and studied his Christmas Gift List. Friends and Relations--and now the University. Ten dollars he was giving it. Of course this hadn't been the first time, since he had done the same thing every February, April, and September he could recall. He didn't mind paying the fine now so much, because everyone else was also giving presents. It was just that gifts like this were usually made by alumni, and although Vag had been around a long time, he wasn't quite . . . but that was an idea...
Once outside, Vag scratched the Dean's name off his Christmas List. He couldn't make his big Gift as an alumnus, but if he kept forgetting to hand in study cards on time . . . Vag wrote "Merry Christmas" across the top of his card; to it he pinned a check. "Pay to the order of the Vagabond Fund for Forgetful Students," it said, "Ten Dollars...