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...morning after his acceptance speech Tom Dewey set out to present the new face of the Republican Party to the U.S. To the rear marched old Chairman Harrison Spangler, with a pat on the back, to a post as "General Counsel." Into Spangler's job came Nebraska-born, Yale-educated Herbert Brownell, 40, Dewey's closest political friend, manager of Dewey's winning Governorship campaign...
...Approved the promotion of Maritime Commission Chairman Emory S. Land from Rear Admiral to Vice Admiral...
...Germans could not transfer units from France without paving the way for Montgomery, making defeat in the west more certain. The 20-odd divisions committed to rear-guard action in Italy might have made the difference if they had been shifted to Russia, but it was too late for that now. And the Nazis could not borrow from other sectors of the Russian front itself without openly inviting the Reds to walk through...
...lieutenant presented the compliments of Lieut. General Karl Wilhelm Dietrich von Schlieben, military commander of Cherbourg, and of Rear Admiral Walter Hennecke, naval commander, and asked that an officer be sent to the tunnel to conduct them out to surrender...
...relaxation he listened to recorded symphony music. For exercise he walked as he had in boyhood, striding along at the regulation rate of 132 steps a minute. Once 208-lb. Rear Admiral Charles A. Dunn, an old classmate, agreed to hike around the foothills of Pearl Harbor. Dunn soon regretted it. His feet swelled and blistered. Still Spruance paced along, hour after hour, until Dunn finally asked plaintively if they could turn around at the next crossroads...