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...people gathered to catch a glimpse of him, hear him denounce Taft's steamroller methods. For a while, after his arrival, Eisenhower forgot politics and attended the annual reunion of the veterans of the 82nd Airborne Division. Amid flickering candles and muffled drums for the dead, Eisenhower wept. He recalled how he had visited the 82nd on the eve of its drop into Normandy, how the men had smiled at him and told him in effect: "Don't worry." Now, at Chicago, the men of the 82nd cheered his words and, again, smiled...
Britain was not quite prepared for lean, well-weathered (57) Tennis Coach Eleanor ("Teach") Tennant and her apple-cheeked San Diego prodigy, Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly. Expecting to greet the same girlish, hard-playing bobby-soxer who wept with joy last September over winning the U.S. Women's title, English tennis fans were soon puzzling over a change in Little Mo. By the time she walked on to Wimbledon's center court last week for the Women's Singles finals, it was obvious what it was: Little Mo had changed into Killer Connolly...
...became superintendent of the Erie's rough, tough ore-and steel-hauling Youngstown district. He was tough enough to shoot up, in eleven years, to eastern district manager. But he was also sentimental; in 1938, when he got an offer as general manager of the Virginian, he wept on telling a close friend: "I'm leaving the Erie...
Tears & Questions. Paris' Communist dailies wept crocodile tears over the handling of the priests. The respected Le Monde scolded the cops for "inexcusable brutality," but sensibly added: "Was it really the priests' place to take part in a political demonstration forbidden by the government?" "Certainly not," answered pipe-sucking Prefect of Police Jean Baylot, whose attitude toward Communist rioters is a skull for a skull. "I don't care if they're ambassadors, priests, pastors, rabbis or candy salesmen. If they take part in an illegal demonstration, they will suffer the consequences...
...toboggan. The vicar came out to meet them. Head bare, his overcoat collar turned up around his neck, he read from a prayer book: "Into thy hands, O merciful Saviour, we commend the soul of thy servant, now departed from the body . . ." Then he bent over the toboggan and wept...