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...travel was perilous. General de Gaulle and fellow travelers (among them: Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, Chief of Staff General Alphonse Juin) chafed, killed time at the Azerbaijan Opera House, then caught a train for Stalingrad. There the General watched steel pour from the furnaces of the Red October Metal Plant (now restored to 60% of former production), tractors roll from the assembly line of the Stalingrad Tractor Works. General de Gaulle presented the "Homage of France" and the bronze plaque in memory of Stalingrad's defense to the city...
...many heroes of the day was Machinist's Mate Robert R. Scott, whose station was below decks at an air-compressing machine supplying the 5-inch guns of the California. A torpedo blast ruptured his compartment, and oil and water began to pour in. Scott's companions got out. Scott yelled: "I'll stay here and give them air as long as the guns are going." They closed the door on his compartment to save the rest of the ship from being flooded. Scott stayed and supplied air to clear the gun barrels until he was drowned...
Cheyenne found out about Nubbins when his father went looking for a Christmas tree. Within a week's time, newspaper readers across the land were looking at pictures of the thin, flannel-clad child with solemn brown eyes. Then the gifts began to pour...
...anxious hours ticked away: lunch, just the Deweys together, in their five-bedroom suite at the Hotel Roosevelt; in the afternoon, a "thank you" meeting for 250 party leaders; dinner in an uptown apartment with six close friends. As the election returns began to pour into Republican National Headquarters at the Hotel Roosevelt, the crowds downstairs in the big ballroom were confident-many wore evening clothes, ready to go out and celebrate. But on the tenth floor, the Dewey party, isolated from press and public, listened tensely. The first tidings seemed "encouraging," but by 11:30 p.m. the news looked...
...accreditation were often more baffling than any Chinese puzzle. There was Vice President Henry Wallace. He cocked a nutritional eye at China's permanently underfed people, bent an eager ear to gossip of Chungking's and Chiang's political instability, buzzed back to Washington to pour his frightening reports into the Presidential ear. Then there were President Roosevelt's personal representatives, Donald Nelson, all new to China and China to him, and Major General Patrick Hurley. Worldly, well-tailored Pat Hurley stopped off in Moscow to garner Premier Molotov's assurances that Russia...