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...March 20, the J.C.S. forwarded a memo informing MacArthur that the President was planning an announcement that, with South Korea cleared of aggressors, the U.N. was willing to talk of negotiations. Before anyone in Washington knew what was up, MacArthur had flown to Korea and offered to meet the enemy commander to arrange a cease-fire in the field. MacArthur added an implied threat: "The enemy therefore must by now be painfully aware that a decision of the United Nations to depart from its tolerant effort to contain the war to the area of Korea through expansion of our military...
...Memo to the Boss. In Tokyo, Railway Employee Yusuke Shikauchi sneaked off to a baseball game on company time, wound up on the front pages of the newspapers next day for winning the automobile raffled off at the game...
...situation and Allied strategic necessities becomes more astonishing. His endless stream of memoranda to subordinates, to F.D.R., to Stalin, are magnificently informed, range from the gravest military decisions to a recommendation (to the Minister of Economic Warfare) to try a John Steinbeck novel. Reading them-and even a Churchill memo on cleaning destroyer-boilers is readable-it is possible to feel the urgency about things large & small that the man felt himself...
From Washington last week, Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey sent a memo about college students to U.S. local draft boards. The policy of Selective Service, until further notice: to defer drafting students who 1) have had at least a year of college, 2) stood in the upper half of their class last year, and 3) signed up for more college before...
...memos ranged from a pep talk on meeting the threat of television ("Quality is the only answer") to a query on a line of dialogue ("Can we get by with the word 'louse'? I thought it was taboo"). One memo noted that the titles in a trailer for a new movie were a "trifle too lurid." Another instructed a producer shooting in London not to use fog in any more scenes, "as it is very uneven." Still another suggested putting a new writer on a story in preparation: "It would be a four-or five-week...