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...Angeles outdid the earlier receptions. But a crowd fully as big as Boston's turned out to cheer California's Patton and Co-Hero Jimmy Doolittle. That night, 100,000 crowded into the Coliseum for a mammoth reception engineered by Hollywood Producer Mervyn...
Anthony Eden, usually no great orator, outdid himself and brought his audience up cheering. When he spoke of peace machinery, he rotated his fists; when he spoke of war, he thrust them rigidly downward. His best (and final) lines: "In the last six terrible years, unnumbered men have died to give humanity another chance...
Last week he outdid himself with a full-page swipe at (and in) the pro-Roosevelt New York Times. The Republican National Committee paid the Times $2,760 to run it as a political...
...poured into it by its representatives. The leading delegates and technicians of all nations, most of them no longer young, worked for three weeks with no more than a few hours sleep a night (even the stenographic staff worked three shifts). But the U.S. Treasury's Harry White outdid the rest. With no more than three or four hours sleep a night, he continued to the end with temper unfrayed and head clear, keeping facts and logic marshaled impressively and informing the press ably and regularly...
...used to circulate around British pubs was that "American Air Force colonels under 21 must be accompanied by their parents." The joke is based on the Air Forces' policy of giving able young flying officers plenty of chances to rise. Last week the Army's air arm outdid itself by elevating (with President Roosevelt's approval) two colonels, still in their late twenties, to the rank of brigadier general...