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Exciting as their first visit to the White House was, the young Eisenhowers had more important business on their minds. On their very first afternoon in Washington, David and Barbara Anne went off to inspect the zoo, chaperoned by a sheepish Secret Serviceman (Mamie and Barbara Eisenhower went to a matinee). David thought the zoo was fine until a lion roared at him. And though Barbara Anne wandered fearlessly into the lion house, David stayed outside, peered through the door. "I can see all right from here," he explained. When he got back, young David had some afterthoughts about...
...Indiana last week, Marion County Superior Court Judge John Niblack ruled that the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. must pay accidental-death benefits on a policy held by a serviceman killed in Korea, even though the policy specified that its double-indemnity clause would not hold good if the insured died while "a member of the military services in time of war." "What you want," said the judge to the insurance company, "is for the court to rule there is a state of war between the U.S. and some foreign power. To ask this court to assume the functions...
...book tells how Britons gradually came to know the U.S. serviceman, and to discover the "likeness between G.I. Joe and Tommy Atkins . . . Like his British colleague, the American soldier was an amateur, and reared to mistrust the posturings of professional militarists ... A civilian at heart, he drove his tank as if it were a long-distance truck on U.S. Route 1, set out from British ports on Arctic convoys or anti-submarine patrols as if he were taking the family across to Staten Island, and bombed-up a Flying Fortress as though he were loading the mails from Bismarck...
...Ambassador Robert Murphy signed an agreement (already approved by Congress) transferring 50 U.S. landing craft and 18 frigates to Japan's Coastal Safety Force (embryo navy) on a five-year-loan basis. The news created hardly a ripple in either country, though in 1942 any U.S. serviceman in the Pacific would have been laughed down had he predicted such a turn of events in one decade...
...serviceman, and proud to be one. It will give me even greater pride, however, that, as a serviceman, I will vote for Dwight D. Eisenhower for President of the U.S. In fact, I have already done so ... by military ballot, which was sent off in the mails...