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...delegates' visits, Eisenhower found time to have his eyes examined, chat with an old West Point gym trainer, meet the trustees of Columbia University (they extended his leave as president indefinitely) and talk to Republican Statesman John Foster Dulles. Dulles' aim, he said, is a foreign policy plank both Ike and Taft can agree on. Asked whether he was for Ike, Dulles smiled and said: "I haven't made any public decision." Asked if he thought the two factions could agree, Dulles made a somewhat circular pronouncement: "If they do not agree, the party will be split...
...passage which many others would use merely to display fast finger-work. The length of the concerto left him no time for encores, though the audience recalled him repeatedly. I for one would rather have heard another selection by him than such encore offerings of Fiedler's as Plink, Plank, Plunk and The Irish Washerwoman...
...Plank Burial. Waxell ordered the well to carry the sick out of the fetid hold on to the wind-ripped shore. Many of them died almost as soon as the fresh air struck their lungs; blue foxes, which swarmed over the island, ate their hands and feet before they could be buried. The living crouched in sandpits near the beach, and there-without strength to move the men who died beside them, with little food except for sea otters and seals that they were able to kill, open to all weathers, and to winds of gale force-spent the whole...
Bering himself died in December and, strapped to a plank, was shoved into the soft sand until he disappeared. Only a little more than half the crew lived to see the spring. Under Waxell's command they broke up the old St. Peter, which had crashed ashore soon after they landed, and built themselves a hooker. By August all was ready, the survivors set sail, and two weeks later hove into Petropavlovsk with "joy and heartfelt delight." North America must have seemed a poor bargain to the Russians. Eventually, they were to sell out their share of it-Alaska...
Whether or not Russell & Co. cause Harry Truman to take himself out, they want the South to have a powerful voice in the convention, both as to platform and nominee. What they will do if the Democrats nominate Truman or a Trumanite, and adopt another all-out civil-rights plank, is uncertain. Dick Russell wouldn't say what he will do. In 1948 he let his name go before the convention, and got 263 votes. But he refused to join the Dixiecrats' post-convention bolt. After a 1952 convention defeat, the Southern Democrats could again try a third...