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...when we bore the brunt...
...first of the peace conferences of World War II bore fruit last week. President Roosevelt at last asked Congress to approve U.S. membership in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, an international planning body projected at Hot Springs...
Rosamond Lehmann, one of England's most distinguished woman novelists, is the daughter of a onetime editor of Punch. She began writing in her youth, was first published at 16, then stopped for years because she could find only cliches in her work. She married a painter, bore him two children and in 1927 published Dusty Answer, a moving first novel that revealed great promise...
There was more behind the sudden shift than the ditching of an unsuccessful commander for one who bore a somewhat overblown reputation as a "stonewall" defender in Italy. To Allied minds who know the Nazi mind best it appeared likely that Kesselring was chosen not primarily for his generalship, but as the commander who might best-from the Nazi point of view-take the Allied knockout punch or throw in the towel...
Safe Deposit. In Mountain Home, Idaho, slot machines at the local air base bore this sign: "In case of air raid stand near these machines. They haven't been...