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...conviction. Naturally, I would have been wrong. But I would have been one just the same. It would not have seemed normal to me to have to cross an ocean and leave an invulnerable country in order to save from disaster my defaulting debtors. Little by little I would doubtless have understood that if Europe and Africa were handed over to German militarism, Asia to Japanese militarism, America would inevitably become a battlefield and that, consequently, I would be saving my own home from destruction in defending London and in liberating Paris...
...After Holland was liberated, Queen Wilhelmina gave Starkenborgh an audience in The Hague. He drove to the palace in his automobile, sent the driver back because he was sure the audience would last several hours; doubtless the Queen would have him to lunch. Much to his surprise the Queen ended the interview in 15 minutes. Starkenborgh went home by trolley...
Secret Missions is sure to set the blue-water admirals aboil, and may even raise the temperature, with doubtless wholesome results, in O.N.I.'s offices (once described by the late Colonel John W. Thomason Jr., U.S.M.C., as "a haven for the ignorant and well-connected")-If at times brash, energetic Author Zacharias seems on the verge of confessing that he is the only U.S. Navy officer who knew what World War II was about, his general complaints about barnacled gold-braid thinking are all too probably justified. Whatever naval pundits may make of his claims and conclusions, lay readers...
Massachusetts Maritime Academy brought a band and at least 1000 leather-lunged supporters to meet the Jayvees Saturday afternoon on Soldiers Field, but the noise couldn't drown out the strains of Crimson victory in the nearby stadium, or the 39-0 triumph closer to hand. Someone doubtless forgot to pack the team with the instruments...
...Anita Loos; produced by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II) shows what a frightening assortment of drinks in a Newark ginmill did to-and for-a prim, plain-looking little librarian (Helen Hayes). On any realistic basis, abstemious Addie Bemis, loaded with pink ladies, whiskey, sloe gin and champagne, would doubtless be violently sick by 10 o'clock; but Happy Birthday is far from realistic, and by 11 o'clock gaily gyrating Addie has copped herself a husband...