As the headlines broke out on Marshall and Byrnes (see,NATIONAL AFFAIRS), gossip columnists rushed forward and took hasty bows. Some of the gossips (who predict a hatful of things, on the chance that a few will come to pass) had predicted long ago that Jimmy Byrnes would quit. In their self-adulation they missed a more exciting item: how a smart reporter had smoked out the season's biggest diplomatic story three days before it was due.
The White House had prepared a timetable giving the sequence of four big pieces of news: General Marshall's recall,...
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