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Good Riddance? Tom Dewey drove back to Albany, where he received a temperate welcome from that Democratic stronghold. At the Capitol, he told 5,000 of the G.O.P. faithful: "I never thought I could learn to be so happy in any community where there are so many Democrats." He added: "I wouldn't like to think that any of them would think that a promotion was perhaps good riddance...
...Greek army launched its big offensive-"Operation Coronet."* The Greeks threw six divisions and other units (70,000 men) against 8,000 rebels in Communist General Markos' Mount Grammos stronghold, near the Albanian border. One aim: to bang shut Markos' backstairs supply (and escape) route to Albania. Another: to mop up Mount Grammos...
...Markos' mountains pocked with strong log emplacements and fortified caves like those the Japanese used in the Pacific war. Moreover, the rebels, instead of melting away under attack to pop up elsewhere, were standing firm. But the Greek army had captured peaks on both sides of Markos' stronghold area, and were beginning to draw the neck strings of the bag in which they hoped to catch him. Said Van Fleet: "We are trying to find a soft spot in the guerrilla lines." The general's unconscious "we" was well-chosen: Coronet was the big test of what...
Next day in Spokane he swung his roundhouse punches harder. A reporter from Spokane's stodgy, arch-Republican Spokesman-Review asked: "How do you like being in a Republican stronghold?" Said Harry Truman: "The Spokane Spokesman-Review and the Chicago Tribune are the worst in the United States." A few minutes later he denounced Congress as the "worst since the first...
...news has yet issued from the New Haven tennis stronghold as to the Eli side of the personnel, though preference will go to Ed Ray and Jack Geller, if they are available. Ray and Geller top the powerful Building squad, which is composed largely of tournament stars...