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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glibly easy to nominate Hitler, Roosevelt, Churchill or Stalin. But it was Lenin who started the main current of events which in one way or another brought out the greatness in these men . . . The acknowledgement should go to the man who started it all, Lenin, damn...
While reading the Man of the Half-Century nominations . . . I've noticed that no one has mentioned perhaps the most important man of this century if not of the next. I am referring, of course, to oft-forgotten Uncle...
...One of the decisive battles of the Revolution. Burgoyne had come south from Canada in the summer of 1777 in an attempt to isolate New England by occupying the Hudson Valley; his 5,000 British and German troops were badly mauled by Americans led by Benedict Arnold on Oct. 7; ten days later, surrounded by 20,000 revolutionary soldiers under General Horatio Gates, they laid down their arms...
...formalities of the White House had quickly given way to a friendly atmosphere of sport-shirted ease. Harry Truman pitched horseshoes with his staff, bobbed placidly in the blue-green Atlantic waters, sometimes dropped in to chat with reporters on a companionable first-name basis. It was during one such informal visit-at a party for White House Secretary Matt Connelly-that one newsman casually observed that General Dwight D. Eisenhower seemed to be acting oddly like a presidential candidate. As casually, Harry Truman amiably agreed...
...press conference well knew. Whether newsmen qualified as "intimates" or not, Harry Truman had obviously gotten the same impression as many another politico: as long as Ike looked like a candidate, talked like a candidate and acted like a candidate he might as well be tagged as one...