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...Towns: A Close-Up was produced at the behest of Britain's ultrarespectable National Federation of Women's Institutes. The British Medical Journal calls it "horrifying" and warns readers that they need "stout stomachs...
...British Army units in the United Kingdom now have an obligatory, weekly religious instruction period. Called the Padre's Hour, it was planned by Army chaplains at the behest of handsome, youngish Major General Frederick Arthur Montague ("Boy") Browning, commander of Britain's airborne troops, husband of Novelist Daphne du Maurier...
Ironically, it was the hand of another political boss that sealed Ed Flynn's doom. His rejection by the Senate had not been certain until Tennessee's Senator Kenneth McKellar announced his opposition, at the behest of Tennessee's aging Democratic Boss Edward H. Crump. What Ed Crump's reasons were remained obscure, but in whatever political revenge he achieved he had helped others express resentment at cynical politics...
Somewhat the worse for academic wear, those Crimson athletes who are not service-bound return to action this week, with every winter sports squad resuming its schedule. Absent from the ranks, however, are numerous shining lights, departing either by graduation or at the behest of the gent with the long white whiskers...
...behest of Navy officers, Congressman Maas made at least one change in his prepared speech. "We are still losing the war in the Pacific" was revised to read: "We are still not winning the war in the Pacific...