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Friday the 13th was not lucky for the Japs...
After five false starts in six months, Artist Hélion finally decided to fake a toothache. Ordered to bed one Friday the 13th, Hélion escaped while the guards were busy with the other prisoners. He got to the street in civilian clothes. A Nazi cop hove in sight. Artist Hélion immediately went up to him and asked him the time. Asked the cop: "What are you doing in a forbidden area?" Said Hélion: "I'm a worker imported from Antwerp." He added: "Where can I get a decent glass of beer...
Alaska, one of the drinkingest spots in the world (per capita average: 3 gal. of hard liquor a year, compared to 1½ gal. in the U.S.), is drying up. It is all the fault of: 1) the 13th Naval District which issued an order restraining "nonessential" cargoes to 10% of the total cargo; 2) War Shipping Administration which has ordered that liquor be shipped to Alaska only if it did not displace war materials. Some Alaskan liquor dealers started rationing stocks to stretch them out, others threw open the doors in an effort to get the "agony over with...
...walls of disemboweled buildings, posters including that of the artist who produced the little Nipponese angels (above). Peculiarly satisfying to the Chinese is also the kneeling statue (left) of Wang Ching-wei, Japan's puppet premier of the Nanking Government. During the Sung dynasty (10th to 13th Centuries) a similar kneeling statue was erected to Ch'in Kuei, China's Benedict Arnold, a cast-iron image that for centuries was spat upon and defiled by the populace in Hangchow. To the Chinese Wang is now in his proper niche...
...George Poschner, his former teammate at Youngstown's Chaney High, for two touchdowns in quick succession. Then Andy Dudish, a substitute halfback, grabbed an Alabama fumble, scooted for a third touchdown and the game, 21-to-10. It was Georgia's seventh victory of the season, its 13th...