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...President mulled the problem over for another day, discussed it with his Cabinet. Then he came to a sudden compromise decision. He ordered Operation Crossroads postponed for six weeks. His official statement: a large number of Congressmen would not be able to witness the tests on May 15 because of their heavy legislative schedule...
...effect was neither sudden nor spectacular. The results of his embassy were slow but lasting; they showed in Allied war solidarity, in understanding between nations, and in the lasting impression of America-at-its-best that Gil Winant left in Britain...
Path Down. His wife's sudden death helped free him. He was permitted to attend her funeral and, flanked by his prison guards, he marched behind her casket through Madrid's streets. More than 60,000 of his followers lined the way, saluting him with clenched fists. Hurriedly, the Government brought him to a belated trial and acquittal...
...Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and their clothes did splendidly in a preview of the first postwar silly season (June to September). A sudden spring tide of pressagents' panegyrations washed them each to glory: the multimillionaire sportsman to a place on the "best-dressed men" list of the Custom Tailors Guild of America; wife Jeanne to a place on the Fashion Academy's "best-dressed women" list. Jeanne, an heiress in her own right,* was one of those the Academy acclaimed for somehow managing to dress well on a budget...
...stormclouds thickened over the Middle East, the Congress took a sudden new interest in the weather reports. Expert W. Averell Harriman, just back from serving as U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, was called in by two Congressional committees. His reported forecast: Russia was not prepared industrially or psychologically for another war-but would try to get all she could without...