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...President's office was crowded with Cabinet members and ranking Congressmen. Facing Chief Justice Fred Vinson, George Catlett Marshall took the oath as Secretary of State. Beaming Harry Truman stepped forward to shake his hand, said warmly that he appreciated "very much your willingness to accept this burden." Secretary Marshall replied gravely: "I'll do my best...
...thing they do know: that a belt of crustal uneasiness surrounds the entire Pacific Ocean. The Pacific's shores are nearly all high and rugged, decorated with volcanoes or with young (a mere 100,000,000 years or so), still growing mountain ranges which shake periodically like custard on a plate. Atlantic shores, much calmer, are mostly old and stable...
...that . . . some operators in a clothing store shook down our visitor for $1.50 to get his new trousers fixed. When I asked a Russian friend about this, he said: 'It must have made him feel right at home.' The 'shake' is not unknown in Moscow, as most foreigners find out. I can compliment Mr. Poltoratsky's wisdom in buying a pair of trousers in New York. The Russians turn out millions of pairs a year, but their bottoms all have a tendency to bell out, like the ones Harold Teen used to wear, and still...
...William R. Katzell) is an apt title for a show where frequently rain is falling and the sun is shining at the same time. It is decidedly brighter than most musicals, and it might have been one of the brightest of them all; but its virtues can never quite shake themselves free of its faults...
...Holloway Plan also calls for: 1) equal opportunity for promotion between Annapolis graduates and other officers (on V-J day, there were only two rear admirals and eight commodores up from the reserves, although reserves represented 84.5% of the Navy); 2) a shake-up in Annapolis' way of teaching, "to give a stronger emphasis to basic and general education, rendering more fundamental and less detailed the instruction in strictly naval material and techniques...