Word: personalities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eisenhower's book was carefully held up until after the election. But Ike's only stick of political dynamite has already become pretty damp powder. In Potsdam one day, Ike was out driving with President Truman, whom he had found "sincere, earnest, and a most pleasant person with whom to deal." Said Truman, all of a sudden: "General, there is nothing that you may want that I won't try to help you get. That definitely and specifically includes the presidency in 1948." Ike says he replied with a laugh: "Mr. President, I don't know...
...Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. Mrs. Breckinridge answered briskly: "Oh, yes. A little baby's eyes are wonderful. We'll call for them tomorrow." Another Manhattan hospital had called to say that some parents had offered the corneas of their dead child so that another person might see. The Red Cross would handle the delivery to the eye bank. A telegram lay on Mrs. Breckinridge's desk saying that the next of kin were offering the eyes of a man dying in a Cincinnati hospital. Mrs. Breckinridge arranged for an airline to fly them east, carefully...
...this fall five reporters, three editorial writers, and one editor came to Cambridge to start an experiment in education. They comprised the first Nieman Fellows--men who had won a year's study at Harvard "to promote and elevate standards of journalism in the United States and educate person deemed especially qualified for journalism...
Wild concluded by remarking, "No fair-minded person can see a conflict between our traditional civil liberties and the natural rights of man; the right to work, leisure, education...
During their talk with Shaplin, the students dropped a hint that the assailants were from Exeter. It was this that prompted Stocking to run through the Exeter photos. "There were too many pictures for me to point out the right person," he said last night. "All I could do was eliminate...