Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Artful Dodger When White House jester George Allen saw an Eisenhower-for-President story in the papers, he lost no time writing his good friend Ike a little note: "How does it feel to be a presidential candidate?" Ike merely scrawled across the bottom of Allen's note: "Baloney! . . . . I furiously object to the word 'candidate.' I ain't and won't be." That was in 1943, Ike was in England, and D-day was still eight months away...
...made another move on the Far Eastern chessboard. In a quietly firm note to Moscow and Nanking, it asked for a speedy end to Soviet control of the Chinese port of Dairen and the Chinese Changchun Railway-and a speedy reopening of both to world traffic...
...Italy, the Rhine province, the Saar (which France, without Big Three permission, in effect separated from Germany last fortnight with a customs cordon). "This," wrote Koestler, "is not the occasion to discuss the merits and demerits of such a plan; I mention it merely to avoid closing on a note of despair. For so desperate has the situation in Europe become that pessimism, like defeatism in times of war, is no longer permissible...
...always harder to draw than men. And there's the nudity problem . . . you just have to know how much is in good taste. Once in a while, if I hadn't had a good-looking babe in the strip for a while, Patterson would send me a note saying how about bringing in the Dragon Lady or some other chick. And he used to hate it when the balloons were too long. ... I didn't agree with many of the things he did in his last years. He seemed to feel that in wartime there...
...technique used involved a specially contrived hocked instrument, which "fished" the $90 note out through the slit. This method, he conjectured, would be particularly effective if the check rested on a stack of Christmas cards and other uncollected Yuletide communications...