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...Three met the deadline. The last G.I. quit by Jan. 1, the last Tommy before midnight on March 1. But Russia had let down deeper roots-in the Communist-controlled "autonomous" province of Azerbaijan. If the Red Army withdrew from the north, Azerbaijan would forthwith lose its autonomous props. Nor had the Kremlin had enough time to negotiate a new treaty with Iranian Premier Ahmad Gavam Saltaneh, who had been in Moscow since...
...fortnight ago, Graves, who had not had a raise in all his Age-Herald years, was informed by General Manager James E. Chappell that "This Morning" would be booted off Page One forthwith and deposited inside the paper. Graves promptly wrote to Chappell: "My column has . . . become easily the most widely read and popular thing in the papers as well as in the South from a Southern writer. . . . The reading public will interpret [this shift] as another example of what happens to columnists when they don't follow your editorial policy. . . . My column's policies, as you know...
Duhamel's colleagues put their cocked hats together, chose instead five Old Guardists-Baron Ernest Seillière, philosopher; Jean Tharaud, novelist; René Grousset, orientalist; Octave Aubry, historian; Robert d'Harcourt, specialist on Germany. Duhamel forthwith resigned. "But why?" chided his late associates. Duhamel's favorites, they said, did not want to be elected anyway...
Indestructible Man. In Chicago, Charles Anderson, slightly injured when beaned by a block from a scaffold, was forthwith flattened by a passing motorcycle...
Last week, in the opinion of tidy, martinettish Lieut. General Robert Charlwood Richardson Jr., chief of Army forces in the mid-Pacific, Stars and Stripes went too far. It headlined a story of the Manila riots: "Patterson [Secretary of War] Branded Number One Enemy by Jeering Mob." "Nellie" Richardson forthwith forbade the editors "to refer in your newspaper discourteously to the President of the U.S., the Secretary of War, the Chief of Staff of the Army or to others in authority in the Army...