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...immediate strategy of the Norman campaign still pointed southeast from Caen. Beyond it was tank country. There Monty could employ bolder tactics, for which his fast-stepping Sherman and Cromwell tanks were designed...
Dapper, boyish Sherman Billingsley, 44, seemed tired as he bowed over ladies' hands at cocktails. In the summer he likes to go to the Atlantic Beach Club at Long Beach, Long Island, to dabble in the surf and suntan himself for a hard winter in doors. But now he was losing his tan; all last week Billingsley had been kept from the beach by New York's hen-shaped May or LaGuardia. On the previous Saturday night the Mayor had sent four uninvited characters into the lush decor of Billingsley's famed blue-and-gold Stork Club...
Trouble, Off & On. But Sherman Billingsley was still tired. He had to pore over thousands of checks and his books to see if he could get himself out of the jam mathematically. And the law loomed just outside the Stork's door...
After that, Henry Wallace seemed considerably relaxed. That night, after the galleries had given him the biggest ovation of the convention, he dropped in at his Sherman Hotel quarters. When he noted that some of his well-wishers were sipping highballs, he asked happily: "Has anyone got a glass of plain bubbly water...
...P.A.C.'s convention headquarters were in two 19th-floor rooms of the Sherman Hotel, filled with red leather chairs and Renoir prints. Here P.A.C.'s assistant chairman, Calvin ("Beanie") Baldwin, and its research director, smooth, balding Economist J. Raymond Walsh, held sway, totting up the Wallace count, working on delegates, calling the printer for more placards. Across the hall was a small room, with the blinds half-drawn, where Sidney Hillman took catnaps between conferences...