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Against this background the President last week addressed the world. In a light grey seersucker suit, a mourning-armband for his mother on his sleeve, the President spoke in a low, grave tone, without histrionics, with little dramatic emphasis. But his words were hammer blows...
...that they slipped in too close to Navy hangars while maneuvering for pictures of one of the Soviet planes carrying the Russian flying mission. The photographer had to get between the plane and the land in order not to get the naval station, a "naval secret," in the background of the picture. When the occupants of the boat nastily surrendered, the Navy could not agree how close in shore they should not have come (one officer said 100 yards, another 50 yards; State patrolmen said the boundary was farther out in the lake...
Added to the President's official family last week was another liberal with a gentleman's background. Francis Biddle of Philadelphia, as long predicted, became Attorney General...
...give the war game a realistic background he distributed a 16-page mimeographed description of a fictitious politico-economic situation that led to the hostilities. On one side was the state of Kotmk (initials of Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Kentucky), represented by the Third Army. On the other side was the state of Almat (Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee) of the Second Army...
Succeeding ailing Brigadier General James A. Ulio, the tallest general in the Army has plenty of background for his job of dealing with soldiers and looking after their wants, recreational and otherwise. In World War I he headed U.S. Red Cross activities in France for a year. Since last January he has been the top civilian of a War Department committee charged with handling recreation and welfare problems for the Army...