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Then Donald Nelson sat back, puffed at a sputtering briar, watched half of Washington rage at his most decisive action in 13 months. The rift spread wider between the nation's armed forces and the one civilian agency which supplies them with arms. The military cried aloud for Nelson's resignation, for appointment of the man who saw the job and did it in World War I-grey old Bernard Mannes Baruch...
...into the springy depths of the clock, and blindly felt his way back to the empty warm nest between the sheets. His heavy head sank into the soft pillow, and lying there, he opened his eyes and stared mistily at the ceiling. "Still going in circles," he muttered half-aloud. "That party last night . . . where on earth is Lechmere? But it was swell . . . gee, she was swell . . . still reeling from that party last night. Oh . . ." And his voice trailed...
...natives. Smith's records are accompanied by booklets so that record-listeners see what they hear. In the field, special service officers hold language lessons for groups of from 10 to 20 men, who hear each set of records a half-dozen times and repeat the alien phrases aloud...
...traditions." The day might even dawn, he thought with sorrow, when a Harvard man might not know who a Yardling was, or what to do when he heard the cry of "Rheinhardt!" echoing through the Yard on a warm spring evening. "I don't suppose," he said, half-aloud, "that this year's Freshmen even know who Join the Orange Man and Bob Lampoon were...
...stairs of a hotel in her knitting bag, laid it before her ailing fellow-traveler-auburn-haired, blue-eyed Novelist Grace Zaring Stone (The Bitter Tea of General Yen). Mrs. Stone was convalescing after pneumonia, and the lady thought it would be nice to read Escape aloud to the invalid. "You can't possibly have read it," said the lady to protesting Patient Stone, "it's only just come into the lending library." Says Novelist Stone: "I couldn't tell her I'd written the damned book. So I said to her: 'It simply...