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Show Found Gen. 'Ike' Pinch Hitting at Switchboard This revealing story was relayed re-layed from North Africa: An important midnight telephone tele-phone conference was being held at General Eisenhower's headquarters. head-quarters. The young soldier at the switchboard was working his head off with calls all over North Africa. The G.I. had a slight fever fe-ver but he didn't want to tell anybody any-body about it. Finally, though, a lull came in the conference and his captain ordered him to bed. About an hour later, he awoke from his doze and heard the switchboard going full-blast. Wondering Won-dering who could have possibly replaced re-placed him at 2 a. m., he went back to his board, found Eisenhower Eisen-hower running the switchboard for his own conference. |