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...Lord Provost of Glasgow protested that Hess brought Glasgow so much publicity that his presence there might well bring on an air raid. > In Rio de Janeiro a Swiss druggist named Rudolf Hess grabbed an airliner to avoid importunate newsmen and photographers. > Mrs. Emma Hess Upchurch of Bristol, Va., a sister-in-law, was proud that her boy Gustave Adolf Hess Jr. is a U.S. Army volunteer. > Several U.S. organizations tried to forward firearms to fork-wielding Farmer David McLean. > In Cairo, Hess's old nurse was sure he was not crazy. > One newspaper report leered that Hess...
...heavy machinery and instruments. To fix a broken Navy power shovel, Illinois' Buda Company recently air-expressed a 750-lb. Diesel engine crankshaft 7,826 miles to Wake Island in the Pacific; Aluminum Co. of America rushed 1,207 lb. of aluminum from Pittsburgh to California to avoid an aircraft production...
...confess ("To have laid out a Rubashov meant the beginning of a great career") were GPU Inquisitors Ivanov and Gletkin. Ivanov had been Rubashov's former schoolmate, former battalion commander. He drank, he doped a little, "but the vice of pity I have up till now managed to avoid. The smallest dose of it, and you are lost. . . . The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan...
...pamphlet, one of a series including "The Second Coming of Jesus," and "Dangerous Bathing Suits," declaimed: "Much of the present-day dancing has a direct sexual appeal: Avoid it if you would keep pure...
WASHINGTON -- Congress approved two far-reaching shipping bills today and heard a plan whereby the United States would deliver the goods to Britain and yet avoid convoys...