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...President packed six days of desk work into four, gave over one to his role in the homecoming of Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz. One thing Harry Truman does not like about his job is its fuss and fanfare. But one ceremonial task the President evidently does enjoy is awarding medals to servicemen and shaking their hands. On "Nimitz Day" he presented the Congressional Medal of Honor to eleven marines and three Navy men. He said to them what he always says on such an occasion: "I would rather have this medal than be President." He shook hands with...
...first time, is extremely light music, but it represents the best of modern American taste. At its massive crescendos, it almost disappears from view in a maze of orchestral difficulties, but when the woodwinds are conversing over the chattering harmonic strings, the work demonstrates a freedom from fuss and buncombe which is greatly surprising and stimulating. It was played with sympathy and understanding...
...fact that General Dwight D. Eisenhower had just instituted an investigation of Bavaria's Nazified German bureaucracy did not seem to cut much ice with Georgie Patton. In his opinion, too much fuss was being made about denazification. Said Patton: "I'm not trying to be King of Bavaria...
...just possible that G.I. Bundenthal proved to be a flop with the British girls, French girls, and others, but was welcomed with open arms by the sexy German girls, who are taught to make a fuss over anything in pants...
...Moscow "as she would have gone into a new kitchen.... History felt her broom." She was illiterate, clean and piously Lutheran. Purchased for a ruble (approximately 50?) from the Russian corporal who first claimed her as a prisoner, the sturdy Lithuanian entered the household of Marshal Sheremetiev without fuss or fume. She obediently went to bed with him and next day set about tidying his house...