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...personal aides began to notice signs of exhaustion in February. Once he tore up a draft of a speech at 2 a.m. and sent the writer back to rewrite it by 8 o'clock. He summoned generals and admirals to his office on Sunday afternoon to advise him, then was unable to make up his mind on the problem at hand. One associate noticed that Forrestal had worn a "hole in his head" by indulging his nervous habit of scratching his scalp. On March 1, Harry Truman sent for Forrestal and asked for his immediate resignation. This...
...time the Jews began their actual military struggle for Palestine, Louis Finkelstein was definitely a non-Zionist-a stand which looked to Zionists like anti-Zionism. At least one large contributor to the seminary tore up his usual check. Some of the faculty deeply resented Finkelstein's attitude, and when he refused to let the students sing the Israel national anthem at commencement in 1945, on the ground that a political song has no place at a religious ceremony, the seminary nearly split apart...
...apperntment with some NBC indignitaries"). Unlike most revues, this one is not cluttered with long dance sequences calculated to give the star a breather. Durante was on camera virtually all the time, sharing honors with Metropolitan Opera Soprano Helen Traubel and old-time Partner Eddie Jackson. Durante, as usual, tore a piano apart, but he was at his best in the short sketches. Samples: in a supermarket, Jimmy trundled off with a beautiful girl sitting in the rolling market basket, told the audience: "I'd have taken two, but they'd get stale"; to an errant Kellogg salesman...
...farewell dinner in Washington last week. Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer was there, and 400 prominent scientists and officials. The speech Dr. Condon had prepared was a talk on the importance of basic research. But at the last minute he changed his mind, put the address away, and tore into the House Un-American Activities Committee, which three years ago called him "one of the weakest links in our atomic security," but never held public hearings to let him refute the charge...
Geneva. At a U.N. Economic and Social Council meeting, Czech Delegate Arnost Tauber objected bitterly to the balloons, called them "further proof of subversive activities by the U.S. Government." Said Crusader Stassen: "We tore a big hole in the Iron Curtain...