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...conference had hardly gotten under way when he made one slip. A reporter asked about plans for a final settlement of the Korean war. It had not been taken up with him, said the President. General MacArthur was making a broadcast asking the Koreans to surrender . . . At the mention of the broadcast, the presidential staff gasped in unison; the surrender speech was still two days off and supersecret. Hurriedly, Harry Truman grabbed for the ball. The newsmen would have to keep the matter of the surrender terms off the record, said he, until MacArthur delivered his speech, which...
...that some of his generals shared a widespread Northern belief that Union armies should confine themselves to defending Northern territory. Lincoln was dismayed first by the delaying tactics of General George McClellan, later by the sluggishness of General George Meade who allowed Lee's defeated Confederate army to slip safely across the Potomac River after Gettysburg. Said Lincoln of Meade's performance: "I'll be hanged if I could think of anything but an old woman trying to shoo her geese across a creek...
People wishing to get tickets to non-sporting events in Boston can come to the P.B.H. office Monday through Fridays from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. After felling Brooks House what location and price he wants, the theatre-goer pays P.B.H. in each and receives a slip which he can exchange at the box-office for the tickets themselves...
...jokers. That was the kind of thing you probably remembered about College. He weighed the book in his hand; it was small and handy, printed on exceptionally light paper. It wouldn't really take up too much space. Vag held the book a minute more, and then let it slip back into the carton...
...first all-new postwar car was planned for August 1946, but the company was so hamstrung by production problems that dealers did not get the cars in quantity until September 1947-and they were not eye-catchers. But Packard kept on making them long after sales started to slip...