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...Dewey campaign was well-planned, orderly, clearly fitted to a pattern. In Louisville, Dewey spoke on foreign policy; in Seattle, on labor; in San Francisco, it was Government regulation; in Los Angeles, Social Security...
...stern school on the Hudson the pattern was almost broken. In his first year Cadet Hodges was "found": he flunked in geometry, and had to leave the Academy. But Courtney Hodges was going to be a soldier, and an officer, if he could contrive it. A year later, he laid down his job in a grocery store in Perry and enlisted as a private soldier. It was up the ladder from there on-corporal and then sergeant in the 17th Infantry, and then a chance for a commission. Sergeant Hodges had turned into a hard, determined student...
...dissents worked out into a pattern. Justices Black and Douglas teamed up 15 times. They were joined often enough by Justices Murphy and Rutledge so that these four formed a bloc, usually ideologically to the left. The bloc on the right had Justices Roberts and Frankfurter as leaders, often joined by Chief Justice Stone and Reed. Justice Jackson was now the "swing man"-as Chief Justice Hughes used to be among the Nine Old Men-joining the right more often than the left...
...reads before breakfast, writes from 7:30 till midday, reads again in the afternoon. He uses a quart of black ink a year, has trouble getting the kind he likes. He is as nervous about starting each new book as he was about the first one. He follows no pattern in his writing, never outlines his work, does not know until he is half-finished with a book what form it is going to take. He is now halfway through the reading for the next volume of his history, which will deal with the lives & times of Melville and Whitman...
Other tendencies notable in this broad restyling of the campus pattern: ¶ The number of servicemen in college classrooms dropped as the Army Student Training Program was slashed. At Cornell it fell from last year's 5,685 to some 3,000. At the University of Chicago the number has been cut two-thirds...