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...Cross parcels from home. Apart from such gifts, prisoners thought that they fared about as Germans did. British Private Richard Welsh of Yorkshire gave the most telling account: "A lot of us suffered from dysentery and stomach trouble owing to the poor food. Ersatz coffee tasted like burnt wood. We were given mint tea which was generally used for shaving. . . . We were given 'tub fat' which was like axle grease, to put on our bread." Private Alexander Mitchell of Dunfermline said: "Our average daily menu was a half-pint of herb tea, a quart of soup (turnips...
...That quiet reserve and dignity you observed probably can be credited to the Baker wives, most of whom have made their way to Cambridge by now . . . . The boys who got amphib are scaring the wits out of everybody by making blood-thirsty Tarzan calls while running around besmudged with burnt cork . . . That white hat which "Admiral" Colby wore while the plain folk marched in garrisons was not the manifestation of rugged individualism. He had misplaced the other job, and had nothing else to wear, it says here . . . thoughts while strolling, as the immortal McIntyre used to write--wonder when Bill...
...servant switched on the radio, tuned in the 9 o'clock news. "Here is the news," said the announcer in the typically dry, burnt-toast style of BBC newscasting. The Prime Minister and his guests listened with half an ear. The announcer droned on "The Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor" he casually observed. "There will be a change tomorrow in the rationing of certain foods...
...cremated at Golder's Green crematorium, with Shaw, his secretary and Lady Astor the only attendants. At the funeral of Mrs. H. G. Wells, 16 years before, Shaw had told Wells to enter the furnace room. "It's beautiful," he said. "I saw my mother burnt there. You'll be glad if you go." Wells went and returned to say: "It was indeed very beautiful...
Summer skies over southeastern China burnt away to clear fighting blue last week, and the Japanese launched their annual offensive against the forward bases of the 14th Air Force. Four times during the first day, in waves totaling some 130 fighters and bombers, the Japs swept over two fields. Their objective: to drive the American Air Force out of the eastern lowlands back to the mountains, where it would no longer menace Japan's diminishing shipping. Their success: one U.S. plane destroyed on the ground, at the cost of 16 of their own shot down, a probable 19 more...