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...George C. Marshall, Henry H. Arnold, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, Malin D. Craig...
Franklin Roosevelt lobbed the weekly quota of hopeful political questions back high and easy, like a bull pen catcher on a hot afternoon. Then Elizabeth May Craig of Maine newspapers, famed among correspondents for her unabashed demeanor at Presidential press conferences, fogged one over in her come-out-and-fight soprano: "Mr. President, would you care to say whether you think Governor Dewey would make a strong opponent...
Newsmen roared. The President threw back his head in laughter. Said he: I'm taking notes on the methods of the White House Correspondents' Association. Do you draw lots? Last week a young man over on the other side asked the same type of question. Embattled Elizabeth Craig waited with Maine-&-Vermont determination written on her face. When the laughter died down she said snippily, "It's a secret," and then added briskly: "Mr. President, do you mean you didn't want to answer the question?" Franklin Roosevelt, still chuckling, said...
...evening was warm. The Yard, as ever on such spring evenings, was restless. Two Harvard freshmen strolled down to the Charles's grassy banks. They were Peter Varnum Poor, son of famed Painter Henry Varnum Poor, and Craig Philip Gilbert, son of a Manhattan lawyer. A group of high-school boys shouted at them, but they paid no attention...
...soon as the lecture ended, the President was challenged by Mrs. Elizabeth May Craig, pert, irrepressible correspondent for a group of Maine newspapers. Said May Craig: everything the President has said about the case, she had read in the newspapers and heard over the radio. Smilingly, the President doubted her word. Where did she read it? At the tag end of some newspaper stories? Surely not in the lead, he said, for he had read the papers thoroughly on his vacation and he had not seen such an account. He had, he added, been specializing in reading newspapers...