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Peace was a clamor, a quest, a foreboding struggle. But politicians and publicists accounted for nearly all the news. Seldom had the people been quieter than in the months before V-E day, 1946. Even where "popular" demonstrations occurred (in Detroit, or Trieste, or Cairo) they had a manipulated look as of soldiers marshaled for parade. While their leaders made history, what went on among the people for whom (and ultimately by whom) history is made? Their leaders were concerned (perhaps necessarily) with remote and technical matters-U.N. procedures, boundaries, interest rates on international loans; from what was said...
Queen Mary came over half an hour later to take a look. Frightened birds settled down again. The watchers left the park, which was quieter than ever. The ticking had ceased, and for quite a few days afterward, Londoners missed...
Died. Carlton Cole Magee, 73, Albuquerque Journal editor who blew the top off Teapot Dome with editorial dynamite, and in a quieter moment invented the parking meter; in Oklahoma City. Jailroaded (for libel) by political casualties of the explosion, Firebrand Magee was promptly pardoned, got in an impromptu fist-and-gunfight with the judge who sent him up, accidentally killed a bystander, but beat the homicide...
Already Spruille Braden was better known to the Latins than any other U.S. figure, Franklin D. Roosevelt perhaps excepted. In five months of Hemispheric fame, twelve years of quieter labors, he had made himself an idol to many, anathema to many others. Nor were all who distrusted or feared him dictators and authoritarians. Many a Latin democrat (perhaps more Latin than democratic) was numbered among his loud detractors...
...Vice Admiral John Sidney McCain, boss of Task Force 38, fought his valedictory last week somewhere off the coast of Japan. For cocky, 60-year-old "Jock" McCain a quieter job was waiting in Washington: helping General Omar Bradley run the Veterans Bureau...