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...husband's painting career began, she confided, at Fort Myer, Va. (when he was on duty at the nearby Pentagon after the war). He just called for "a rag, thumb tacks and a board." The rag turned out to be a dish cloth on which he painted an oil portrait of Mamie. "I just don't know the word for it," she said...
...Hitler and Stalin were buddies, and the A.Y.C. was denouncing her husband as an imperialist warmonger. Even at this late date, she invited the leaders to stay at the White House, begged Cabinet wives to take others in, got the Army to provide cots for the rest at Fort Myer, Va., and asked Franklin to address them from the south portico of the White House. "Franklin's intent to be kind and understanding was evident, but he felt obliged to say some pretty harsh things." They booed. She later wrote: "Although I could see how the young people felt...
...movies (The Thin Man, Cheaper by the Dozen); and Howland H. Sargeant, 39, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, who last year headed the United States' UNESCO delegation to which she was an adviser; she for the fourth time, he for the second; at Fort Myer...
...even the tidy Ridgway house (Quarters No. 7) at Fort Myer has the breath of military austerity. The living room looks like a room a man had decorated. There is not a paper or a letter showing in the pigeonholes of the desk. Until Christmas week, one of the sights of the post was the general and 21-month old Matt Jr. standing together on their porch at dusk, stiff as ramrods, saluting the colors...
...duty officer at the Pentagon routed General Lightnin' Joe Collins out of bed at 5:30 one morning last week to read him the first pink secret dispatch about the Chinese counteroffensive. Collins rubbed his eyes and dialed General Omar Bradley, asleep in House No. 1 at Fort Myer, Va. All that day the Pentagon's brass-level was gloomy with misgivings. Next morning the whole thing exploded when Douglas MacArthur defined "the entirely...