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Cloak & Dagger Missions. Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy's Was There, while dry and cautious, belonged on the shelf of must reading for the history-minded. So did Admiral Frederick Sherman's Combat Command, General Mark Clark's spirited Calculated Risk, and General Bob Eichelberger's straightforward story of the Eighth Army in the Pacific, Our Jungle Road to Tokyo. Several of the personal-adventure books made excellent reading. Best of the lot was British Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean's Escape to Adventure, a lusty, well-written narrative of daring and luck in carrying out cloak...
...show of shows was the pilgrimage of the 193-man presidential party-Cabinet members, old congressional friends and reporters-to the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia. (Defense Secretary George Marshall and Joint Staff Chiefs Bradley, Sherman and Vandenberg went up on their own. "Missing it," explained Sherman, "might have caused more of a flurry than going.") A special pilot engine, tugging three cars full of Secret Service agents and railroad detectives, pulled out five minutes ahead of the presidential special to scout out possible sabotage along the 133-mile...
...Pittsburgh and Cleveland, newspapers and department stores shut up shop, steel plants and hundreds of other industrial works closed down; in Akron, Youngstown and Morgantown, W. Va., thousands of automobiles, trucks, cabs, buses and police cars were stalled inextricably. National Guardsmen patrolled Cleveland to prevent looting and used Sherman tanks to tow stalled trucks and cars from the drifts...
...four years before he got a steady job, playing the part of Hopalong Cassidy in a series of B westerns produced by an oldtime horse-opera manufacturer named Harry Sherman. Boyd and Sherman made 54 Hopalong pictures. Then in 1943, because of rising costs, Sherman stopped producing them. Boyd made twelve more on his own hook, finally was forced to quit too. In 1947, at the age of 52, he was on the beach again, this time apparently for good. But he refused to believe he was through...
...Manhattan from Switzerland, quickly rose to waiter, then maitre d'hotel at Delmonico's, the old Waldorf, the new Waldorf-Astoria. He served sandwiches to fortify J. P. Morgan on the wintry eve of a Wall Street panic, catered to "Diamond Jim" Brady, Generals Grant and Sherman, various Presidents and kings. Until he retired in 1943, he managed to keep dinner at the Waldorf a fastidious, expensive ritual despite Prohibition, the rise of the sandwich, and shortages brought on by wars...