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Whenever we lecture to ourselves this way (editorial "we") we take ourselves too seriously and usually suffer a minor mental breakdown in two or three days. So tomorrow night, after having given ourselves this lecture, we're laking time off to attend the dance for Midshipmen at the liasty Pudding Club at 2000. We understand that it's just fine to bring along a wife or sweetheart, but we're going stag because we understand that Wellesley will be well represented...
...armed forced of the United Nations, among which those of Britain and America will have the last word, will not be able to occupy the whole Italian peninsula at one stroke. Therefore, a crisis will be unavoidable in large sections of the country between the moment of military breakdown and the time when the armed forces of the Atlantic Powers will have firmly established their control over the whole peninsula...
Back from a five-and-a-half-week tour of seven South American neighbor nations was Henry Agard Wallace, who had traveled by many conveyances, but most notably by handcar. After a railway-car breakdown in Ecuador the Vice President had transferred to the railgoing seesaw, shed his coat, hoisted his sleeves, doggedly pumped and sweated for three miles...
...boom) is the least that the U.S. needs. But no estimate of a bedrock economy (even assuming that it could be accurate in the first place) is static: in a long war, as goods wear out, one year's bedrock can turn into the next year's breakdown, as need for replacements and repairs mounts...
...because he keeps making news. This time it's in the form of two fine albums of re-issue, one Victor and one Brunswick, now a Decca subsidiary. The Brunswick has the edge in quality, and the advantage of having many sides unavailable for more than ten years. "Birmingham Breakdown" is remarkable for being the only Ellington with a Dixieland breakdown ending, and "Wall Street Wail" has always been one of my favorites...