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Kiddies of Caracas used to listen on the radio with bated breath to "Tío Timoteo" (Uncle Tim), wondering how he knew that little Juan Bimba's birthday present was under the sofa and that Babita was not eating enough cereal. He knew, of course, because fond parents wrote in and asked...
Dismissing the fond notion that the Third Reich can easily be starved into submission, the picture aptly illuminates the Nazis' use of food to control their conquered peoples. In stricken cities food is used to lure skilled workers to the Nazi war industries; in other places food is removed so that Jews and unwanted nationals will die. Those who play ball with the Nazis eat better than those who don't. The Nazis know that the undernourished are too numb to revolt...
...killing all civilian hopes for rubber, the President had resurrected them. Unbelieving Donald Nelson called the White House, learned that the President had indeed uttered the roseate words. Quickly Nelson called a press conference of his own. There he tried, without flatly contradicting his chief, to puncture the fond new hope. But good news travels faster than bad; many a citizen still believed, at week's end, that his present well-worn tires were not his last...
...Boston press is fond of carrying exclusive stories on the war situation written by famed columnists and correspondents. But what is the use of exclusive stories concerning far off developments when Hub papers seem not even able to cover their own stamping ground? Boston papers have, in their editorial pages, shown themselves jealous guardians of wartime freedom of the press. But what good is freedom of the press when the press freely abuses that freedom...
...silver platters were sweets and cookies. I ate Turkish cookies, a delicacy I am very fond of. My friend ordered great goblets full of champagne, into which he put shots of cognac to make it more lively. Sweets and cookies...