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...West Coast since the Japanese attack. Captured last summer in the cool hills of inner China, they are presented to the U.S. by Mme. Chiang Kai-shek in gratitude for the activities of United China Relief. In a new, barless $15,000 home at New York City's Bronx Zoo, the new pandas will be weaned from bamboo shoots to a diet of Pablum, orange juice, milk, honey, raw eggs...
Crime. In The Bronx, N.Y., a gunman burglarized a dentist's office, reassured the dentist: "Shut your mouth. . . . This won't hurt a bit." In Philadelphia, police accosted a suspicious-looking stranger, asked him what he was doing. "Waitin' for my partner," he said. They asked: "Where's he?" The stranger replied: "Robbin' a house down the street." In Dallas police frisked a burglary suspect. He was wearing: a pair of overalls, two pairs of trousers, two swim suits, two suits of long underwear, seven pairs of shorts, eight pair of women's lace...
...Army and Navy last week demonstrated that they are invincible, if only on a football field. In The Bronx and Philadelphia, on fields closely resembling duck soup, the Cadets and the Midshipmen kept their 1941 football records clean-Army for the fifth successive week, Navy for the sixth...
Travel. In The Bronx an eleven-year-old boy returned home from ten-mile-distant Teaneck, N.J., where he said he had walked in his sleep, wakened in a tangle of fishing tackle in a parked car. In Memphis an eleven-year-old runaway from St. Louis, 300 miles away, appeared at his girl friend's home for a date. He brought her a doll. In Camden, N.J., police obeyed the instructions of a twelve-year-old Kansas City runaway's parents who refused to send him the fare home: they released him, told him to hike...
...virtual prisoner of the Nazis in his own palace at Laeken, has turned grey. Lieut. Joseph Alsop Jr., ex-Washington columnist, resigned from the Navy, to work for Generalissimo Chiang in Chungking. Sumner Welles's son, Arnold, graduated from the Naval Reserve Officers' training school in The Bronx. Civilian Defense Director Fiorello H. LaGuardia turned down a WPA "national defense project": study of the home life of fish. Hedy Lamarr invented a remote-control device the Government termed secret and "promising." The Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service set Private Mary Churchill to scrubbing steps after Father Winston...