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...announced loss of the 10,000-ton cruiser Edinburgh and four merchant ships as the result of enemy attacks on two convoys plying the North Cape route. Yet Winston Churchill (see p. 26) was able to announce that, despite some losses, every convoy carrying U.S.British supplies to Russia has gotten through...
...triple-threat fullback," captained the basketball team, had a trophy presented in his name to the outstanding Sophomore basketball, has a "favorite co-ed," is "an active fraternity man," doesn't smoke or drink, likes smooth music best, and hasn't gotten to 'thinking seriously' about any girl...
Jesse Jones, who had gotten by for more years with less criticism than any other Administration official, read these words with narrowing blue-grey eyes...
...fumingly defended Jesse Jones: "I'm not a banker and never wanted to be one. I haven't got a banker's mind. . . . We don't have any delays here. . . . The best evidence that we've been working is the fact we've gotten out $12,500,000,000 in about a year and a half on this war stuff...
...well that he was called back for a return engagement the same month-a thing the Boston Symphony never does. Fortnight ago he likewise reappeared, for the second time this season, with Frederick Stock's Chicago Symphony. Concertgoers could not remember when, if ever, a musician had gotten return engagements within the same season by two major U.S. orchestras...