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Moment of Sentiment. For tall, trim Captain Ellis Zacharias, as he left her for Washington after five combat actions to become Assistant Chief of Naval Intelligence, the crew of the Salt Lake City had a handsome testimonial. Their scroll recalled old Swayback's great fighting career, the raid on the Marshalls, the attack on Jap-held Wake, the days & nights at "general quarters" when the enemy was hammering at them with bomb and torpedo. "We say farewell to you with a deep sense of personal loss," it concluded...
Representative Lyndon Baines Johnson, dark, trim Texas New Dealer, last week reported simply to the House on a complex problem-baffling every war agency. Since the war, absenteeism had doubled, tripled in many war plants...
When Ed Stettinius left the stand, his trim dark suit was unwrinkled, his sober maroon tie unrumpled, his white handkerchief still in place in his breast pocket. A new Gallup poll showed 82% of U.S. citizens in favor of Lend-Lease, only 9% opposed. Renewal by Congress appeared to be a mere formality. Not until the Administration's reciprocal trade treaties come up for renewal would its "international" policies be challenged by Congress...
...when he first began working here, to the present time. Even when he shaved ex-President Eliot, he got only the customary ten or fifteen cents extra for a haircut or a shave. With the late President Lowell it was the same dime or fifteen cents for a Burnside trim or a mustache curl. It's always been like that, he said...
...Slender, trim, polyglot Luis Quintanilla is well-known and well-liked in Washington, where he served Mexico for many years, the last two as Minister and Counselor of Embassy. At George Washington University his lectures on political science were popular. His courses often branched out into political discussions in any language that came to tongue. Last week Dr. Quintanilla, now Mexico's Minister to Moscow, offered the English-speaking world his ideas. In a book, A Latin American Speaks, he showed that south of the Rio Grande there are men who can not only look over the wall...