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...Gathering. In the President's party, besides his sons, were Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles; General George Catlett Marshall, Army Chief of Staff; Admiral Harold Raynsford Stark, Chief of Naval Operations; Lend-Lease Administrator Harry Hopkins; Admiral King of the Atlantic Fleet; Lend-Lease Coordinator W. Averell Harriman, not to mention his Military Aide Pa Watson, his Naval Aide Captain Beardall, his physician Admiral Mclntire...
...communiques. The Prime Minister simply vanished. From London also vanished Franklin Roosevelt's Man Friday, Harry Hopkins. No longer in Washington, or anywhere anybody could find them, were Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of The Air Forces' Major General Henry H. Arnold, Assistant Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson. No longer at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, said luncheon-table gossip in New York, was the Navy's new battleship, North Carolina...
...reporters kidded frustrated U.S. confreres, the Iceland ban caused a furore in Washington. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, who dearly loves a secret, had actually promised that he would arrange to send U.S. correspondents to Iceland. He made his promise over the protest of Chief of Naval Operations Stark and Admiral King of the Atlantic Fleet. But one big No gummed up his plans. It issued from his Commander in Chief. Operating on Presidential instructions, the State Department refused passports to all correspondents...
...special mixture of helium and oxygen (to keep nitrogen out of the blood stream, thus forestall bends) was failing him. Later, two divers did reach the bottom, in the subterranean dark and pressure could see nothing, do nothing. On the third day, the Chief of Naval Operations (Admiral Stark) in Washington announced: "The decision must be to accept the situation as loss of naval personnel at sea, who can best be honored as men still at their station of duty. Not one of them would expect or wish another naval man to risk his life to provide another final resting...
...secret of his liking for Chekhovian sketches and vignettes with a narrative content approaching zero. One of the stories in this collection-by Arthur Kober, dialectician laureate of The Bronx-is just a monologue by an offensively smug hash-house proprietor. Many are written in the fashionable (since Hemingway) stark-simple style which, slightly overdone, approximates baby talk. Thus John Fante (A Nun No More): "My mother cried and cried night and day. They couldn't stop her. . . . Finally Grandma Toscana called the priest. . . . Right away she felt better. Next day she was better than ever. Next...