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For the moment, there was no time to learn more. Ambulances nosed, moaning, through the crowd, loaded the wounded aboard. Presidential Secretary Charles Ross, who had been in the White House offices across Pennsylvania Avenue, rushed inside Blair House to find out: Would the President still make his trip to...
Washington showed no signs of objecting. But last week Harry Truman acted-after a fashion. He appointed cob-nosed old (74) Cyrus Ching to the high-sounding post of director of the Wage Stabilization Board, though the board did not yet exist.
When the first Russians entered China long ago, the button-nosed Chinese dubbed them to, pi-tze, or Big Noses. Last week, a count of the Big Noses in Red China totaled more than 150,000 soldiers and civilians.
New York's legislature created its Civilian Defense Commission in May. It was supposed to operate on an appropriation of $100,000. To run the show, Governor Dewey had picked Lucius De Bignon Clay, the wiry, sharp-nosed, imperious West Pointer who accepted the chairmanship of the commission as...
Bung-nosed A. P. ("Peck") Herbert, 60, novelist, wit, and Independent M.P. for Oxford, took to the pages of London's Sunday Graphic to give a vigorous pat on the back to Britain's Chief Representative to the U.N. Sir Gladwyn Jebb, with a sideswipe at one of...