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...hottest talk was over the Secretary of State. Cordell Hull, 73, has not resigned, and certainly would not, health permitting. But he had been at the Navy's Bethesda Hospital for three weeks with a bad throat; he had needed extended vacations in the last few years. For his place, if he were forced to quit, the dopesters had many candidates: Henry Wallace, Sumner Welles, Ambassador Winant, Under Secretary Stettinius. But as long as Cordell Hull wanted the job, Franklin Roosevelt would let him keep...
Rumor swirled across Europe: Hitler was in the latter phases of paranoia. He had been seriously injured in last summer's bomb plot. He had been partially paralyzed by an apoplectic stroke. He had undergone a throat operation. He was under the care of four doctors, including a brain specialist. On his physician's advice, he had retired to Berchtesgaden. He had been deposed by Gestapoboss Heinrich Himmler. He was simply keeping out of sight so as not to associate himself in the minds of Germans with the days of defeat. He was dead...
...sunny afternoon, a little old man with a bright pink face came hurrying up to the train. It was ex-Vice President "Cactus Jack" Garner, the copilot whom Franklin Roosevelt had dropped in 1940. John Garner, now 75, was wearing a worn work shirt, buttoned at the throat, a pair of dingy pants. There was an outrageous twisted rope of cigar between his teeth and a faded ten-gallon hat pushed back on his white hair. His old friend from the U.S. Senate stepped down, rushed forward, hand outstretched. Old Jack Garner clapped him on the back, beaming...
...movie, to the Bali dance routine Chief Pearson puts us through on a Monday morning, but we must descend at last. At least that's the theory of our very dear pharmacists' male friend (the eye specialists you know). In his rotund manner, thrusting, the creosote gun down our throat he says "You've danced, now pay the piper" and pulls the trigger...
...chest. Shouted Patton: "You beat me, you beat me. . . ." He demanded that the honor of another Patton (no kin) be cleared: ". . . you stabbed General Patton in the back when you wrote that story about him. You apologize to General Patton or I'll cut your god-damned throat." Pearson was whisked out of the restaurant by protectors while Patton was seized by the wrists. Onlookers believed that Patton had never opened the knife. He bellowed: "Yeah, I'd cut out his damned throat...