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...There's My Old Flag!" At the West Point Museum, the President pored over Custer's last battle map of the Little Big Horn country, and the courier's note that brought his last despairing cry for rein forcements. "Oh, look at this," cried the President, espying "Little Phil" Sheridan's gold-plated Winchester. Then, through an open doorway, the President spotted the flaming-sword emblem of his Supreme Headquarters in Europe, and he blurted: "Oh, by gosh, there's my old flag. I'd forgotten I sent that up here." Afterward, the President...
WHILE the fate of Chiang and China hinged on decisions in Peking and Washington, Sir Winston, keeping a firm rein ort his own fate, resigned-just when TIME said he would (TIME, April 4). Knowing that the Prime Minister had wavered in his decision for almost a year, I asked our London Bureau how it had been so sure of the date in advance. "On March 9, I had a drink with a politician I trust, and he told me the decision had been taken, that Churchill would resign in the first week of April,'' cabled Bureau Chief...
Publisher Newhouse expects to increase the editorial budget, give his editors a free rein to expand and improve the news coverage, and thus hopes to close the circulation gap on the Post-Dispatch. For Newhouse, the independence of his local editors is the keystone of his publishing theory. He has no use for chain operations that make papers look alike or speak with a common editorial voice. Says he: "Nobody knows better what to print in a local paper than the editors on the spot. The ideal chain is one in which there is no chaining whatsoever...
...formidable knight, the pair work their way over to the edge of a cliff. Here, oddly, it is Taylor who gets thrown to the floor of the ravine. Miraculously, he lands in a bed of quicksand; and on hearing his affectionate call, his horse trots over, throws him a rein, and pulls him out. It is certain that no writers in Hollywood, save those with especial creative talent, were permitted to work on the scenario of this film...
...economy-minded housewife who had always wanted free rein in a supermarket was turned loose with her family of six, loaded up with $69.87 worth of fancy groceries...