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Last week the people proved the pundits wrong. The people showed that they were actually dead-serious about the 1944 election; they weren't making much fuss, but they were far from apathetic. All over the U.S. millions of citizens poured out to register. In Ohio, they stood outside their registry boards for as long as two hours in the rain; in Brooklyn, hospital patients had themselves wheeled to their polling places five blocks away...
...never goes through the ritual of addressing the ball, without preliminary ado just steps up and hits it; he figures that he would lose about 25% of his effectiveness if he stopped to fiddle and fuss...
...across Italy (although he got out in front of it at Naples and innocently rolled into that city ahead of the first combat units). A see-for-myself kind of boss, he now bounces back & forth across the Channel, up & down the map of France, traveling without fuss or feathers, hitching rides rather than put anyone to any trouble. Last week he caught a ride to Lyons in Major General Ralph Royce's private plane and luxuriated in a cushioned seat. Bucket seats in a transport are the cheerful McSherry's usual...
...They die quietly, these American boys-without fuss or complaint, perhaps muttering about 'Mom' just before...
Fiddle, fiddle, fuss and diddle...