Word: macs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Profit & Loss. Marshall ticked off the Administration's rejoinder to the MacArthur proposals: bombing of Manchurian bases or of the Chinese mainland would not cripple the enemy as much as Mac-Arthur believes, because, for one thing, life is cheap in China; a naval blockade would involve the U.S. with Russian ships, would probably "leak like a sieve," and would not shut off the main Chinese supplies, coming by land from Russia; the value of Chiang Kai-shek's troops on Formosa in any expedition against the Reds is negligible. "I do not believe . . . the result would...
Dismissal of General MacArthur is a shock to practically all of us in the Philippines. Mac seems to be the only top American who understands the Asiatics and the Communists in Asia...
Fattened out with an Autry-devised tribute to Mac ("The world will ne'er forget him, to him we say well done"), the record was cut the day after MacArthur's speech before Congress. Within 24 hours it was in the hands of California disc jockeys and shortly thereafter in record shops, selling an estimated 25,000 copies a day. Hot on Columbia's heels, seven other record companies got top performers in both barn and ballroom categories to record it; most called on professional lyricists to hoke up the song's meager words. Among those...
...Show in New York. TV's Mac-Arthur coverage in New York went as smoothly as in Washington. Manhattan's WPIX stood by with spares ready to rush to the scene in case any of the pooled TV equipment broke down; none did. Teetering truckloads of newsreel cameramen were able to keep pace with the parade all along its route. TV's mobile units were tied to three strategic locations (Liberty Street & Broadway, Bowling Green, City Hall) by the umbilical cords of power lines plugged into convenient buildings. The MacArthur coverage showed that TVmen were learning...
...ahead with a movie based on the song, anyway. His picture, explained Duke, would be about "a fellow in a little town" who "makes a great -life in the Army and comes to the point where an old soldier never dies." Added the producer: "If he happens to resemble Mac-Arthur or Omar Bradley or Skinny Wainwright, it isn't intentional...