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That night the Eisenhowers retreated to the presidential suite of the Statler Hotel. Next day Ike went to Walter Reed Hospital to have a stubborn case of-pink eye examined, while Mamie got her first chance in seven months at a U.S. department store. Ike made his duty calls at the Pentagon and lunched formally with Defense Secretary Lovett. Then, trading his uniform for a well-cut civilian suit, Ike Eisenhower followed his high road on out across...
...tenacity and survival. These seem to him to be the result of a divine grace, unearned yet partly paid for by a willingness to be a witness to things secular and divine, irrespective of personal consequences . . . Above all, one is moved by the magnificent courage of this stubborn and sensitive man, who refused to die to please Stalin, who built a new life, threw it away to atone for his past, and found it again. May it inspire others who until now have feared the wolf-pack of the anti anti-Communists to come forward to testify to the truth...
...Margery "knew where sour grass grew, which you chew for dyspepsy, and mint, excellent for the naushy, and the slippery elm . . . for raw throat and other sore tishas." Contemptuous of doctors, she cured her husband of fever by forcing a broth of sheep droppings down his protesting gullet. For stubborn pregnancies she blew powdered tobacco "up one nostril of the expectant mother," and so brought on a fit of sneezing that would "dislodge the most reluctant baby...
This, then, is the horrendous evil which the National Fund for Medical Education relies on corporation charity to prevent. It is no more socialistic than the National Science Foundation or the Fulbright Scholarship grants. The medical armies should cease both their stubborn resistance to federal grants and their stubborn search for a substitute before the shortage of doctors becomes more acute than...
People who see little of him think of him as a garrulous, facetious and easygoing nightbird whose one aim in life is to figure in the list of spurious personalities who make up café society. Those who have seen him from inside the circus know him as a stubborn man of uncommon determination, whose whole life is devoted to proving himself as big a man and a better showman than his uncle, John Ringling...