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...worst of the lot is a drawing by James Montgomery Flagg showing a jester jabbing his pen into the rear end of an evil-looking person labeled "Hypocrisy." The caption is, "1951--Lampy--Still doing his stuff." If Mr. Flagg is seriously implying that the Lampoon is a puncturer of the balloons of insincerity and inconsistency which clutter up the atmosphere of society, then he should examine more closely the recent copies of the magazine...
...reprimands, Scott himself became general in chief in 1841. True to form, he clashed with Secretary of War William Marcy over conduct of the Mexican War, wrote in one blistering letter: "I do not desire to place myself in the most perilous of all positions: a fire upon my rear, from Washington, and the fire, in front, from the Mexicans." President Polk finally managed to gag Scott, who went on to conquer Mexico City, return a hero, be nominated for President by the Whigs in 1852. He lost to Franklin Pierce. He continued in the service, was Abraham Lincoln...
...Saturday, at his little-used office in the Eighth Army's rear headquarters, Ridgway prepared to relinquish his old command. "This is not goodbye in any sense of the word," he told correspondents, "because I am still very much a part of this team." Before his final departure for Tokyo, he turned reassuringly to his successor, Lieut. General James Van Fleet. "I won't get in your hair, Van," he said...
...camel's nose. Finally we got a few men into some abandoned enemy trenches and had a good view of his positions, but we had one platoon badly chopped up. I was hitting them with 57-and 75-mm. guns, 81-mm. mortars, and 155s from the rear. But we just couldn't get 'em all, and we withdrew under heavy mortar fire. We had to leave some of our wounded. A patrol got them out later, but they were all dead...
Stern Bros, moved uptown to its eight-story store on Manhattan's bustling 42nd Street in 1913, thoughtfully included a carriage entrance in the rear to accommodate the Astors and the Vanderbilts who lived on nearby Fifth Avenue. Both the carriage entrance and most of the carriage trade are gone now, but Puckett thinks Stern's new middle-income customers are right for Allied. To get more customers, Puckett plans to build a string of Stern Bros, suburban stores around New York City. Grossing $33 million last year, Stern's will be the 75th store...