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...Unknown Soldier, Rhee signaled to a State Department aide who trotted behind him carrying a shopping bag. At each stop the aide solemnly opened the shopping bag and removed a red maple sapling from the old palace garden in Seoul, and Rhee solemnly planted it. At Mount Vernon Syngman Rhee paused to acknowledge the cheers of a crowd of tourists, and a small girl begged him to stand still so her mother could snap a picture. "Take her picture with me," said Rhee, drawing the child close to him, "and be sure to send me a print...
...Press Secretary James Hagerty's news conference, reporters found a complete stranger sitting front and center. With a Little Jack Horner smile, Hagerty introduced his guest as Vernon Bradley, a real-estate man from Springfield, Mass. Bradley had come to Washington to see Dwight Eisenhower and to announce that he would run for Congress in Massachusetts' Second District. Added Hagerty: "The President wished him well...
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Robert Pearlman, Long Beach, Mathematics; Michael Maccoby, Mount Vernon, Social Relations; Fred J. Levy, New Rochelle, History; Ralph Blum, II, New York City, History and Literature; David P. Chandler, New York City, English; George B. Driesen, New York city, History; Gilbert K. Highet, New York City, English; Robert H. Mundheim, New York City, History; David L. Shapiro, New York City, Government; Stephen A. Weiner, New York City, Economics; Milan C. Kerno, Jamaica, Government; James D. Finkelstein, Rockville Center, Chemistry...
...Form of Substitution. Since he began his work, two important things have happened to Leonard Cheshire. Arthur, his first patient, was a Roman Catholic, and when it came time for him to die, Cheshire dug out a Catholic book: One Lord, One Faith, by Vernon Johnson, an Anglican minister's strongly partisan account of his conversion to Roman Catholicism. In the early morning hours after Arthur's death, Cheshire read it through and knew that at last he had found the authority he had been looking for. "After the war," he says...