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...MORE DAYS we'll be out of the callaboose--and though you won't believe it, mates, they're going to turn us loose." Hupping days are almost over, and with an occasional wistful glance backward at the happy fun we've had in these parts and the gang joys of an NTS, we pursue the pressing activities of the hour: places of artistic, marine, and Early American flavor, neglected in past weeks for studies in modern leather and-chrome interiors, must be visited; white suits must be retrieved from the shambles of the fitting room; that last carton...
...that election the new Lewis move will probably have a profound effect. As a matter of course he will throw his whole weight against a Fourth Term. But, in view of his isolationism, he will probably also gang up with the Old Guard against liberal Republicans of the stripe of Stassen or Willkie...
...number was coming up. To Corporal Isaac Lorenzo Moroni Parker it was the sonofabitching Kasserine Pass. To Private First Class Michael Scotto di Clementi it was digging a slit trench beside the colonel's tent in an oasis and wondering if anybody remembered Micky Scott of Our Gang comedies. To Major General Terry Allen it was a satisfying pride in his 1st Division and an occasional chance to talk polo with a British major over a cup of tea. To many another soldier it was a grave in a clearing at Bèja, in the Valley...
...came across the house on R Street in an investigation of defense contract brokers. Monroe's trail led them there, and they had high suspicions. Their suspicions were all the Washington press needed. They remembered the "little green house on K Street" where President Harding's Ohio Gang hung out, the "little red house in Georgetown" where the aboriginal New Dealers schemed their schemes. Paced by Columnist Drew Pearson of the Washington Post, the press laid back its ears and bayed. Pages slopped over with heavy headlines...
...tracing telephone wires, police found two other houses which contained hidden bookie offices. Outside one of them, two WOCD men sat in a car waiting for the police to come out, when two members of the gang drove up. They threatened the students, but "Threatened to no avail...