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The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
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An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
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He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the…
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Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except,…
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Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing…
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They fought on with a devotion which would puzzle the generation of the 1980s. More surprising, in many instances it would have…
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I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.
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His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to…
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He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] never went to church, but he read the Bible every day and regarded himself as one of the…
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His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them.
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It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective…
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It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the…
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