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...speaking to me. For a second I panicked, wondering what was coming, when one said, "You must excuse us, madam, but we must tell you, your two children are the most beautiful we've seen; they're so lovely." All of us in our area remarked how fond of children the Yanks were. They appeared to be perpetually surrounded by our offspring, playing with them every available minute and giving them souvenirs...
...time. As a result, neither absentee ism nor lack of manpower, the plagues of other war plants, have been a Grumman problem. Turnover, for all causes, including the draft, has been a small 2.3% so far this year, about half of the aircraft industry's average. Swirbul is fond of saying: "We're cold-blooded about all this, simply go out in the plant and tell the boys: you work a little harder and the company will make more money. If it does, then we'll give you more money...
...fact that absent-minded William was no good at names and could never remember which one was Marianne, which Marguerite. Chic, brunette Marianne ("hostesses delighted in the brilliance of her conversation") made indolent young William work so hard that he passed the Royal Navy exams. William was "deuced fond" of Marianne, but he loved vivacious Marguerite, whose hair was "a riotous mop of natural curls" (Marianne had to use curlpapers...
...first reaction was elation. The papers said that the Anglo-Saxons had stirred up a hornet's nest. Their spearhead would be broken and the Wehrmacht would be free at last to teach the Russians the futility of further efforts to advance. The fond dream of a negotiated peace began to come alive. Quislings sent brave greetings to the Fiihrer-duly published- and the people recalled the devastating powers of mysterious secret weapons...
...highceilinged, untidy laboratory at Yale's Sheffield Scientific School, Petrunkevitch has collected members of every known spider family (there are 63). He has had there at times as many as 180 live tarantulas, whose dark, hairy backs he is fond of stroking (see cut). His 30-odd works on arachnology include a description of the internal anatomy of 92 spider species, reports on spiders' circulatory systems, psychology, sex life...