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...Konev that he intended to raise the daily calorie level to 1,550 as soon as possible. But, he added, "I know how I would feel if we had been in here first and you came in and immediately raised the food level. It would seem like a deliberate slap in the face. For that reason, I intend to do it gradually." Ever since then, Clark has hammered away at the Russians to maintain decent rations...
...proposed to put New Orleans into the slot-machine business by licensing some 3,000 city-owned "one-armed bandits"; to license legal bookmakers (at $25 a day); and slap a 20% levy on race wire services' gross receipts...
...branding of the average soldier's conduct as "odious and disgusting" is a slap, not at the Army, but at the American way, for the Army of World War II was a civilian Army. He expresses wonder at "how naive and stupid" were the G.I.s. . . . Perhaps the former Army chaplain has forgotten that these "illiterates from Brooklyn, Texas and Los Angeles" are the same men who made it possible for him to return to this country in peace and hand down his judgments to their discredit...
Correspondent Clifford readily admitted that the cocksure, prissy, teetotaling Field Marshal was not always popular. "The older Desert veterans, in particular, resented him. . . . He is not a good mixer-he can't slap backs and drink with the boys and tell dirty stories." About his staff, says Clifford, there was "an atmosphere of amateurishness, almost of school-boyishness. ... Some of them ... looked as though they were certainly playboys in private life. Others were surprisingly youthful Fellows of Universities. . . . But the proof ... is in the battle. . . . The important thing is to avoid arguing that the General and his staff...
...best clients complained about her work to District Attorney James T. Burke. One aggrieved man with a "stomach misery" said he had paid her $60, had drunk a quart of mysterious liquid every three days for five months without any sign of improvement. Another had given her $25 to slap a hex on an undesirable daughter-in-law. The damned thing hadn't worked. Neither had a $40 wife-luring...