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...President had tried every which way to prod Congress. At least four times within the past month, he secretly invited small groups of congressional leaders to drop by Blair House in the evening for pep talks. The meetings all followed the same pattern. Guests arrived about 8 o'clock, were greeted cordially by the President, got a highball, and were drawn into a few hours' discussion led by the President. Among the guests were such Administration stalwarts as Connecticut's McMahon and Minnesota's Humphrey, but there were also a few unpredictable Democrats ranging from Florida...
...pattern was repeated during the rest of his trip. San Antonio, the old Army town with the highest percentage of retired generals in the U.S., treated him to old memories (he had lived there as a boy, and attended Texas Military Academy). General Jonathan Wainwright was on hand, in bemedaled uniform ("How are you, Skinny, you old rascal?"), so was Lieut. General Walter Krueger, General Courtney Hodges...
Yale follows a similar program; Bob Kunned takes his swimming team to a Massachusetts prep school for an exhibition meet, and Bob Hall brings Yale movies along when he drops in at Connecticut schoolboy team banquets.5A map of Yale and Princeton alumni activity would show a similar pattern with different centers of strength. ST. LOUIS and BALTIMORE, for instance, are considered "Princeton towns." Harvard, on the other hand, is far more active in securing the top applicants from MINNEAPOLIS and CLEVELAND, while Yale at present is attracting top students from SEATTLE and PORTLAND. Closer to home, Harvard alumni just last...
...described as "emancipator of his country from British domination." In conditions remarkably similar to those of today, a 1941 story centered around a map titled "Iran-New Focus in Middle East." In 1945 TIME stories reported that Washington's air of hopeless resignation had already become the dangerous pattern for U.S. relations with Iran, left Russia with chances galore to bring trouble. Since 1946 the editors have continued to report on the ineptitude of both British and American policies right through to the time when the present crisis began to take shape last spring...
Griswold wrote a theme song-"Some Insolvent Evening." He took a slogan from a mayonnaise jar-"Keep cool but do not freeze." Gradually, his life began to settle itself into a pattern...