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...shaped 7,500-tonners with reciprocating engines, would be built for Britain (cost: $350,000,000). This additional job was naturally no surprise to the Maritime Commission or to Land, who had helped lay out the program and knew the British would order 60 more ships of the same brand. This week the Commission announced that it would get busy on 400 more seagoing slugs for Britain, when it gets money ($500,000,000) from the $7,000,000,000 appropriation for aid-to-Britain just passed by Congress...
...trigger-tongued Lady from Virginia had spent the day showing King George and Queen Elizabeth around the city. She sat in the dining room of her house on the Hoe with Australia's Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies, with her 17-year-old dock-working nephew, James Brand (son of the distinguished banker Robert Henry Brand, who was last week in the U. S. buying food for Britain), and with an American correspondent. It was 8:30 p.m. Nancy Astor was tired, but she kept up a patter of light talk...
Lady Astor watched the explosions; James Brand watched his dockyards pasted. Then, without warning, a high explosive went off near by. Every window in the Astor house blew out; Lady Astor's clothes were covered with powdered glass. Incendiaries landed on the roof. She and her guests ran up and doused them with sand. The going got thick; for a time they went into the cellar. Later they came out to douse more incendiaries. Early in the morning, when the all-clear sounded, Nancy Astor dragged herself upstairs and fell into bed in her windowless room...
...correspondents are greeted by a cordial captain in a brand-new, cheerful reception room. Army cars whisk them to interviews in the War Department's 20 outlying buildings. When brass hats refuse interviews, General Richardson gets the refusal rescinded. "They might push a Brigadier General around," say his well-pleased subalterns, "but not a Major General...
...define the term. If you want to be fancy and throw in references to "collective improvisation rhythmically integrated," you're a better man than I am. However, I think it's safe to say that at a jam session you're liable to hear a much finer brand of jazz music than you would anywhere else. In the first place, the whole thing is completely informal. A few musicians get together and do their best to play what they think is good jazz music. And they generally have the right idea, often inspired by no end of liquid refreshment. Then...