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...dinner (oysters and filet mignon) at Ottawa's Chateau Laurier with 40 members of the Parliamentary Press Gallery and their 60 guests. Dinner over, he was presented with a gold card awarding him an Honorary Life Membership in the Press Gallery. Then came the evening's well-kept surprise. A motion was put and carried by a rising vote. The Prime Minister rose, turned to a grey, balding newsman near him at the table...
Another award awaits serious, hardworking General Holcomb: the Distinguished Service Medal, already authorized by the House and awaiting only Senate action. Another job also awaits General Holcomb, but that is still the Navy's well-kept secret. Best guess to date: a place among the Allied Joint Chiefs of Staff...
Helen Walsh was pretty, sensitive and warmhearted, and her sister Lydia, seven years older, was watchful, forthright and kind. Hackettston, Conn., where they lived with 9,174 other people much like themselves, was a quiet, ordinary, clean and well-kept town. George Peterson, who married Helen, was a solid businessman who flushed uncomfortably when he admitted his philosophy of life: "It's worth something just to hear the machines going till 5 o'clock again...
Most people had thought that the plan for invading French Africa was a well-kept secret. Admiral King thought that it was very poorly kept. Nevertheless, he said, "the actual date was known to only about twelve people among ourselves and the British." Now he must give very serious thought to Europe. Said he: "People talk lightly of our next invading Sicily, Italy, etc. Maybe we can do it, but it's going to be a seaborne invasion and it's not going to be easy...
...main part of the city sprawls across a plateau which falls sharply into the river. Between the edge of the plateau and the center of the city is a narrow residential area of neat low houses and well-kept boulevards...