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Anita Kube, his blond wife, had bragged all over Minsk about her household staff of a dozen servants. "Twelve Russian swine," she was fond of repeating, in her arrogant Nazi way, "are cheaper than one good German maid...
...Homma, who flew from Tokyo as a character witness for her husband, described him to reporters as a bookish poet, "kind and considerate to his wife, servants and children." He dabbled in Chinese poetry, liked "serious literature," was especially fond of Galsworthy and Shaw. His favorite English-language novel: Gone With the Wind. (Army Intelligence said that he read a chapter nightly on Bataan before retiring, asked Tokyo to rush him the movie "when the Japanese land in California...
...encouragement, an elderly reader in Fond du Lac County last week told him she was putting him on her prayer list, and the Congregational minister read the editorial to his Sunday-school class. Two ladies from the W.C.T.U. welcomed him over to their side...
...against his own will, became more than any other man responsible for the bomb, its use in 1945 and its future. It was an ordinary, uncurious man without any pretensions to scientific knowledge, without many pretensions of any kind, a man of average size and weight, wearing bifocal glasses, fond of plain food, whiskey-&-water and lodge meetings. It was Harry Truman, 32nd President...
...toothy grin, a penchant for flying, no allergy to work. On school vacations he worked as a "fly boy" in the pressroom at his father's New York Mirror. By the time he was 23 he was president of the American, and nobody objected. He earned the fond regard of Manhattan cops and firemen by plugging to get them higher pay. Occasionally he went nightclubbing with Irving Berlin...