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...unmoved): "Read that last paragraph inside your book." Taxicabbing to his office, Administrator Henderson seized a copy of his 70-page book of regulations, heavily underscored the clause about such emergencies as his, sent the book, with his autograph, to the station attendant. Commented the latter, still unmoved: "I ain't selling any gas to anybody in a can. It goes in their tank, that...
...Daniel, usually a shrewd appraiser of political psychology, made an appalling error in judgment. To Texans, who are fighting-proud of their fighting sons, he said: "I ain't worried about the war. That's Roosevelt's job." Allred and Moody will not let Texas forget this un-Texan remark-or Pappy's votes against neutrality repeal and draft extension...
Fortnight ago (in a letter Writer Thérèse Bonney published in Vogue) Gertrude told. Part of the time she hoes potatoes in the little peasant village of Billignin par Belley Ain in Unoccupied France. Food is scarce. The peasants idolize her: she is one expatriate who did not run away from defeated France. She is also writing a novel, called Mrs. Reynolds. Both Hitler and Stalin are in it. Gertrude has already written 25 pages. Alice B. Toklas is typing them. Gertrude believes the novel will not be finished for some time. Wrote Gertrude: "You know...
...south in a wide sweep around Bir Hachėim, to outflank the British line, but his intended surprise was detected, his columns were attacked by superior forces. At that point Rommel was worsted and he began to extemporize. While his engineers cut a gap in the heavily-mined Ain el-Gazala line, he distracted the British with various false movements, ringed his gap with protective artillery, then pushed his forces on through...
...south in a wide sweep around Bir Hachėim, to outflank the British line, but his intended surprise was detected, his columns were attacked by superior forces. At that point Rommel was worsted and he began to extemporize. While his engineers cut a gap in the heavily-mined Ain el-Gazala line, he distracted the British with various false movements, ringed his gap with protective artillery, then pushed his forces on through...