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...ground floor was the recreation room, a large, round, bleak affair, as dreary as a nightclub in daylight. Beside the gambling table was a huge steel cabinet bulging with roulette wheels, dice, hundreds of decks of playing cards with Esquire-style pin-up girls on the back. On a key board hung keys to every room in the palace, and to dozens of apartments in Cairo, with the names of the occupants attached on neat labels...
...quote me" (i.e., not for attribution). Talking straight has become almost a lost art in Washington, and newsmen have to fight their way through a semantic jungle. Since "off the record" has become both confused and often useless, the only answer for good newsmen is to pin their sources down as to what use may be made of their material. If the sources really want it suppressed, for no good reason, most good newsmen refuse to accept the terms and go digging for the facts elsewhere...
Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett and other top brass gathered in the Pentagon to watch Acting Air Force Chief of Staff General Nathan F. Twining pin the Distinguished Flying Cross on veteran Barnstormer Speed Pilot Roscoe Turner for his "contributions toward the advancement of the science of aerial flight." It was awarded by an act of Congress, and the first time in 20 years that the D.F.C. has been given to a civilian...
...Beta Kappa student, was captain of Harvard's football team when he made the cover. Another TIME story a year later showed that he was doing more than just passing and running with the ball on the football field. With the help of his teammates, who smeared pin-pricked drops of their blood onto slides during the games, Wood was measuring the effect of exercise on white corpuscles in the blood...
Four Day Campaign. The Barkleys-the Veep, Mrs. Barkley and her daughter Jane Hadley-rolled into Chicago three days before the convention, and the candidate's first act was to pin a lightning button to his lapel. Then, to prove how young he still was at 74, he led a procession five blocks through the sultry heat to his headquarters in the Conrad Hilton Hotel. At a full-dress press conference that afternoon, his eyes looked a little tired, and his pink face seemed slightly drawn with lines of weariness. But as the Veep went through his catalogue...