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...hall, where marble columns were decorated with vines, and the walls were lined with great banks of pink carnations. Greeting 93 big-name dinner guests, the Eisenhowers, with Elizabeth and Philip, led the formally dressed procession over a red carpet into the dining room. There a huge horseshoe table shone with the James Monroe gold flatware (engraved with "The President's House") and gold-rimmed service plates emblazoned with the President's seal. After dinner (chilled pineapple, cream of almond soup, broiled fillet of English sole, roast Long Island duckling, frozen Nesselrode cream with brandied sauce) the President...
Eyes & Noes. In election year 1952, the growing spotlight on the Eisenhowers shone even to Korea. It took John a while to get used to what he called "notoriety." And Eighth Army brass, worrying over the possibility of his capture by the Communists, tried hard to keep his frontline whereabouts a secret. On Election Day, John listened to the returns by radio in his tent. Three months later, John was on hand to see his father inaugurated as President of the U.S.-by special order, at first unknown to Ike, of outgoing Commander-in-Chief Harry Truman...
...Continue." That night, after the earth was dark, Simons' balloon still shone with reflected sunlight. Through his porthole windows, he stared at the most impressive sight of his life: a stratosphere sunset. Checking the changing shades against a spectrum chart, he radioed a fervid description back to earth, once excitedly described a shade as "purplish blue blue." Said he: "There's no color on. this chart to match it. No sunset on earth was ever so beautiful...
...strutting, arm-pumping style, or getting moist-eyed over the last exits of Cohan's vaudeville teammates-his mother, father and sister. As the other three of the Four Cohans, Roberta Sherwood, James Dunn and Gloria De Haven seemed just right, and Singer-Dancer June Havoc also shone in a production well cast right down to the sponsor-Swift...
...confusion of battle at Chancellorsville, the last hope of the Confederacy fell with him. This book, the best biography of Jackson in more than half a century, makes clear why General Robert E. Lee said of him: "Such an executive officer the sun never shone on. I have but to show him my design, and I know that if it can be done it will be done. No need for me to send or watch him. Straight as the needle to the pole he advances to the execution of my purpose...