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...results gave Dewey 2,116,000, Bennett 1,505,000, the A.L.P.'s Dean Alfange 400,000. Tom Dewey was New York's first Republican Governor in two decades; he now held the second most important political office in the land. He looked at his stack of congratulatory telegrams and said: "Gee, this is a glorious...
...Bessic Smith? She was a big colored woman, with a voice like a mellow foghorn, a range of two notes, and a heart as big as humanity. Bessie is, indeed, the epitome of all that is good in jazz. To the uninitiated, she couldn't possibly stack up alongside Dinah. Certainly Dinah is far easier to listen to. But when you take the time to listen to Bessic, you soon find out Dinah's is the one who can't do the stacking...
...served with Franklin Jr. aboard a "four-stack" destroyer in the summer of 1940 while he was out with us on a short training cruise. He wanted no special favors, nor received any, but pitched right in at whatever was to be done. He stood watch with me and navigated, conned the ship and trained gun crews. The sharpest memories I have are the time he was shoehorned into the forward magazine on a blistering hot day to help stow some ammunition we were receiving aboard, and the time he borrowed my white shoes and a pair of socks...
Squawks. "It's not home," no news, girls ("don't stack up beside our girls"). The most judicious and fair-minded of the boys I talked to in this town, who came from St. Louis, said: "They don't have the proper things, like silk stockings. It's not the people anyway, it's the system." One boy told me with genuine incredulity: "You know what they teach kids in this country? They teach them that England won the last war! Can you beat that? It's a fact. A couple of little kids...
Although the picture was inspired by the work of U.S. volunteer flyers in the R.A.F.'s Eagle Squadron, most of them would be puzzled by the way Hero Robert Stack mopes around (his buddy has been shot down) because the British take death so dispassionately. When he eventually recovers, wins the girl (Diana Barrymore) and niches a new-type fighter plane from a German airfield, time...