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...Roomy Overcoat. In the first few days of the new censorship, A.P.'s Brines estimated, the restrictions had cut his file from Korea by 25% and slowed up stories as much as an hour, but otherwise there hadn't been any dire consequences. I.N.S.'s Tokyo Chief Howard Handleman preferred letting the censors worry about security instead of following the old "honor" system, which made correspondents responsible for military security. Said he: "It's a lot better than being awakened at 4 some morning to learn that somebody has broken a story that we have been...
Aviation to Xylophones. By the middle '30s, Mencken's influence had begun to fade. Mencken was as much the victim of the depression as the shivering vagrant to whom he once gave his overcoat on Times Square. He refused to take the depression seriously: "What goes up must come down. [That's] all the economic theory worth knowing." But a frightened and hungry U.S. public had no stomach for ridicule, and ridicule had always been the popular basis for the Mencken boom. By the late '30s, many bright young people barely knew who Mencken...
Without Prejudice. In Auburn, Calif., Robert Brumfield Jr., after robbing some of his fellow inmates in the Placer County jail, took the sheriff's overcoat and .38-cal. pistol, got into the deputy sheriff's pickup truck and drove away...
Harry Truman, his pearl grey Stetson conspicuous among the diplomatic Homburgs, was on hand at Washington's National Airport 22 minutes before Attlee arrived. A freezing wind whipped at the heavy, dark blue presidential overcoat. "This is London weather," he commented to Dean Acheson. "He ought to feel at home." Mr. Truman had a cheery greeting for India's Madame Ambassador Pandit, but turned away to talk football to the security guard...
...planned to take out some 1,500 civil officials, clergymen and others who had actively aided MacArthur's forces, to save them from Communist vengeance. In the city hall, Lee Keun Tae, wispy chief of the administration section, already had his overcoat on. Where were his men? "All gone," Lee said. He himself was planning to go all the way to Seoul, taking his wife and seven children. How would they go? "Probably walk," said Lee. A man in a black overcoat with a mink collar joined the conversation. But another man came in, whispered "The car is ready...