Massachusetts' slick, handsome Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. failed to answer roll call in the Senate one day last week. Colleagues soon learned why. The reading clerk droned out a letter from the Senator: he was resigning to go back into the Army. Reporters hotfooted it around to the Senator's office, learned from a secretary that Lodge was already in his major's uniform, already off somewhere on duty.
For young (41) Senator Lodge this was a second appearance in uniform. His first was before the gates of Cairo, when General Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck's Britons were falling back. Major Lodge...
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