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That was enough news for a normal week. But President Roosevelt had a far bigger sensation to pull out of his hat before the week was over. Rocking back in his desk chair, his big mole-speckled hands riding the chair arms, pleased at the hot-flash reception of his news, he also let it be known that he would look over Army maneuvers at Ogdensburg, N. Y., and the word went north from the White House that there was to be no salute of guns, no bands, no reviewing of troops for the President. All that he wanted...
...Stephen loves his mesa-browsing goats, Amanda and Stephen love each other. Drought sears the pasture lands, threatens to dehydrate the romance: valley grasses can save the starving goats or protect the orchards from floods. Stephen with his goats conquers the trees in Amanda's heart. But a flash flood drowns Stephen, leaves unwed Amanda to raise figs, peaches and Stephen's posthumous baby. Author Gillmor's tale has some of the fresh clarity of desert...
Within the compound of China's Ministry of Information several short-wave radios are tuned in, day & night to each of the world capitals. Before each radio sits an alert operator, ready at a moment's notice to translate a Russian, German, British or French flash and hurry it to the attention of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. One day last week the English-speaking operator was shocked into attention by a BBC commentator. The operator took some notes, then sent a courier to the Gissimo's compound. The report...
Equally informal was BBC's flash to the children on the fate of the French Fleet. Said the announcer: "It's not a thing about which one likes to say very much. The French Fleet had to be taken under our control to prevent it falling into German hands or else we had to trust Hitler's word that it wouldn't be used against us-and who could do that nowadays...
...sixth, as State after State began rolling over to him, photographers got their cameras ready, flash bulbs set. Illinois shifted heavily, Michigan came, Missouri, Oklahoma, Virginia - it was all over. He had been nominated for President of the U. S. Mr. Willkie, formerly of Elwood, Ind. rose; someone pushed him toward a microphone in an adjoining room, and he said in a subdued voice: "I'm overwhelmed. I'm deeply grateful. . . . Now I want to go and join my family...