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From Omaha's Chamber of Commerce came a yowl of rage. "The OWI description implies that the Midwest is a drought-stricken, poverty-ridden territory. It gives no thought to the important contribution Nebraska has made to the winning of the war. Nor does it take into consideration the rapid industrial expansion of the Midwest in recent years...
...confusion was soon resolved in disaster. Young Woollcott had barely enjoyed the triumph of being hired as a reporter for the New York Times when he was stricken with mumps. The already abnormal youth left his bed "if not totally neutralized, permanently depleted of sexual capacity." His skinny frame took on "the unhealthy fat of semi-eunuchism." It was no wonder that his vindictiveness became so "swift . . . shocking and poisonous," that his fellow reporters, used to less skillful insult, feared and avoided him. But Woollcott made his unpopularity a badge of honor, turned his brashhess into a ruthless faculty...
After he was stricken with infantile paralysis, it was a large part she played in encouraging his resumption of public office. She often traveled to get factual material he was unable to secure for himself. She conducted herself with great dignity and graciousness, oblivious to the jokes regarding her peripatetic leanings, ignoring the petty minds who tried to stir up scandals by her sons' marital misadventures...
...German press attacked him again-while he delayed Vichy's final fall, supplied the State Department with valuable information and made the best of a tough job. He returned stricken with grief, bringing with him the body of his wife, Louise, who had died after an operation. A mournful, lonely man, he settled down to write his reports, willing to finish his life in retirement...
...time in five years. The French First Army, on the right bank of the Rhine, captured Stuttgart and suddenly leaped south to the heavily guarded Swiss border, trapping some thousands of Germans in the Black Forest. The French also reached Lake Constance, not long after four boatloads of guilt-stricken Nazis had fled to the eastern end of the lake, where they could duck into the Alpine bastion. A few frantic latecomers, who reached the dock just as the last boat was pulling out, jumped into the water and tried to swim after...