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Davenport was sent to join the 27th Division in the Philippines to prepare for the invasion of Japan. But he and others said they were glad the action they planned was unnecessary...
Professor Theodore Spencer, handsome andtweedy, led a thrilling dash through the historyof drama. When I told him I'd like to write mypaper on Aristophanes--because he was so likeGilbert and Sullivan--Mr. Spencer looked mildlysurprised but said he was glad that I didn'tobject too much to "the dirt." I hadn't actuallyrealized it was dirty, my guesses at the words Ididn't know seeming too impolite to be true...
Americans who remember Ike at all tend to recall a do-little President or a mangler of sentences at press conferences. Military writers sometimes portray Ike the General as a genial and soothing Alliance board chairman at best, or at worst a glad-handing bumbler. Eisenhower the Supreme Commander was none of those. He was a driving, demanding man of terrific energy: up before dawn, to bed after midnight, chain-smoking four packs of cigarettes, drinking 15 cups of coffee a day. He was a military perfectionist, impatient with his subordinates and a peerless, lucid briefer. He had a volcanic...
...recently as last month she told a friend that things were going well: "I'm almost glad it happened because it's given me a second life. I laugh and enjoy things so much more." However, the cancer had spread to her brain and her liver from her lymph nodes. On Wednesday, after deciding that further medical treatment would be fruitless, she went home. She died the evening after. This week she is to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery beside her husband and her son Patrick...
...Washington the Clinton Administration has been of two minds about the Fed's actions. While White House officials see no threat of renewed inflation, they would be glad if the Fed's moves kept the economy from growing so rapidly that it peaked before the 1996 election. At the Fed, meanwhile, the expected arrival of Clinton nominees Alan Blinder and Janet Yellen, who could be more tolerant of inflation, has the five holdover members groping for new formulas for battling it. The most draconian of these would raise interest rates whenever unemployment falls below 6.5%. (It now stands...