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Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger, veteran of the Pacific war; flew into New York last week to spend Christmas with his wife Em, made a suggestion which Army wives everywhere overheard. Said General Eichelberger, recently appointed boss of U.S. occupation forces in Japan...
...allowed to tap telephone wires and did. On Dec. 5 agents overheard an "apparently meaningless and therefore highly suspicious" telephone message from a Japanese newspaper woman to Tokyo. The FBI passed the message on to Military Intelligence, which submitted it to General Short at 6 o'clock on Dec. 6. "As Short was unable to decipher the meaning," said the Board, "he did nothing about it and went on to a party...
...girls riding on a Connecticut-bound train were overheard discussing their respective fiances. The first girl was saying, 'But the thing I like about him best is he's so mature. You know, real wrinkled...
Occupational Semantics. Among G.I.s the word "fraternization" had acquired a meaning not included in family dictionaries. "How's fraternizing down your way?" was a standard conversational gambit. Nevertheless, many a soldier understood that the rule went beyond sex. TIME Correspondent Percival Knauth overheard two G.I.s at Wiesbaden discussing the matter in its larger aspects...
Russian officials soon learned that their seclusion, their secretive official air did not sit well. On the conference's opening day, Molotov and Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet Ambassador to Washington, must have overheard the rude remarks of newsmen waiting with them for an elevator in the Fairmont Hotel: "Those bastard Russians!"; "Did you hear how so-&-so got the brushoff?" Gromyko speaks and understands English; Molotov does...