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...script writer for M.G.M., she had given up her Hollywood career to go to the Far East. She was at her husband's side in the Philippines when the Japanese attacked, lost everything but the sweater and slacks she was wearing when they bombed Manila and burned her home to the ground. On New Year's Eve she made a last-minute getaway to Bataan-caught a little island freighter at midnight as the Manila docks went up in flames...
...brown pullover sweater and gabardine slacks had lost the Presidency just two weeks ago. Now, like any other carefree vacationer, he spent his mornings playing better-than-duffer's golf at Georgia's famed luxurious Sea Island. He whipped long drives across the watery 13th, cracked out iron shots with careful deliberation. As he had said he would be, Tom Dewey was "deaf, dumb and blind" to politics...
General Joseph W. ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell, commandless at his Carmel, Calif, home, shed his ribbonless four-starred khaki for slacks and an old black sweater, met the press informally. Mum on the subject of his removal from China, grizzled Vinegar Joe said his hat was off to this generation of U.S. fighting men, averred that his being at home just "waiting" was "very tough on Mrs. Stilwell," swore that he ranked around the house "right after...
...Dewey, dressed in sweater and grey flannels, played golf last week† to relax from the first round of his campaign, and studied ring technique to prepare for his next. The question he faced: should he try to outbox Franklin Roosevelt, or to out-slug...
Field Marshal Sir Bernard L Montgomery, on the road to Berlin, was wearing the same brown sweater he had worn on the road to Dunkerque in 1940-thanks to some Belgian monks who had found the sweater in the city of Louvain and kept it safe from moths and Nazis...