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...youth. Coached by him to perfection in the basic and fancy three-cushion shots (see cut), Masako fearlessly forged on into a man's world. She became a lionized exhibition player, put on one-woman shows for homeland Japanese troops in World War II, switched to entertaining U.S. servicemen soon after...
Randall spoke of a law by which servicemen of World War II should have been put into the reserve automatically upon discharge. "If the law had been respected, the United States would have had a reserve of from 10 to 12 million. The military violated the law which Congress gave them." Hershey did not answer this charge...
...that because Government planes and servicemen are expendable, the Air Force has drifted into a practice which counts the uninterrupted accomplishment of domestic, often unimportant flying 'missions as more important than the lives of men who fly in planes...
...took back the "our" as a slip of the tongue. But two days after Vishinsky's speech, his wish came true. The Hungarian government announced that it would bring the U.S. airmen to trial. The charge: "Having with premeditated intention violated the border of Hungary." By putting four servicemen in uniform on trial as spies, the Reds had gone further than they had ever dared before...
...issuing or denying passports to all U.S. travelers, controlling the destinies of 430,000 U.S. citizens abroad-with almost terrifying efficiency and dispatch. Franklin Roosevelt once fondly called her the State Department's "wonderful ogre." For the thousands of troubled U.S. citizens she has helped-servicemen's wives, harried businessmen, hard-pressed students-she is nothing short of wonderful. Her most famous exploit: recovering 300 U.S. passports, first issued to members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, and reported lost in battle in the Spanish Civil War. Mrs. Shipley correctly guessed that the passports would turn up in Communist...