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Treachery at Dawn. It lasted for 40 hours. It ended in the way the Russians always knew they could end it: by treachery. Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky assured French officials-who made some of the most strenuous protests-of safe conduct for the Germans. Out of the darkness of their rooms, the weary prisoners came into the darkness of night, gratefully breathing the clean air of early morning...
...could remember. "Why can't we celebrate the new Queen's birthday on Aug. 31 as well?" complained a visitor from the West Indies. "After all, you can't change that day. It's the Queen's day." But four days later, after a strenuous round of parades, reviews and parties, the Queen whose birthday it celebrated put her name on a parchment and-after 50 years of rule-was queen no more...
Candidate Harry Truman put in a busy week, mapping his strategy. If he was to have a chance to win, his strategists decided, heroic measures were necessary. What they planned was perhaps the most strenuous campaign ever waged by an incumbent President. Cheered by a Gallup poll showing that the Dixiecrats commanded only 14% of Southern votes, Truman boldly scheduled an invasion of the South for mid-September. This would be followed by swings through New England, then the Pacific Coast and Southwest, lastly through the Midwest...
...divorce was complete. Candidate Wallace wrote his last piece for the NR, a meandering 13-column restatement of his life and thought: "Few men have been so privileged as I to see at close hand, and to act in, one of the great dramas of all times . . . The strenuous three months ahead will require my full energies. Moreover, the New Republic editors should be completely free to support . . . the candidate and party which most appeal to them ... I am bidding my faithful readers goodbye in one capacity, but I shall sooner or later be seeing them in another." Two days...
Fallwell's classified "classic" stretched from Texas to Oregon, with bullfights, treacherous river-fordings, antelope hunts and climatic disturbances at every turn in the road-and the grammar was sometimes tired after the strenuous trip. Last week's installment ("The Terrible Rain Storm with Thunder & Lightning") had carried the author only up to the age of eleven. But Publisher Frank Schiro would have no objections if Autobiographer Fallwell outrecalled Thomas Wolfe...