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Since September 1940, tall, blond Larry Allen has reported firsthand almost every big British naval action in the,, Mediterranean. In March, when the British in one night in the Battle of Matapan knocked out an Italian battleship and sank a half-dozen cruisers and destroyers, Correspond ent Allen got a grandstand view from the bridge of Admiral Cunningham's flagship Warspite. He was with the British squad ron which blasted 5,000 Nazi troops at tempting a surprise landing at Crete...
...orders pass through a half-dozen hands before they emerge, are signed by each one. Result: no one knows what official has made the decision or who is responsible for carrying...
...large a proprietary interest. (The trouble with New York, says the Colonel, is that it has a bigshot complex.) Belatedly the Tribune started a campaign to get more defense work for Chicago. To offset the Field paper's $10,000 name contest the Tribune ran a half-dozen contests-$10,500 for a new U.S. operetta, $10,000 for easy answers to a State-capital contest, $5 to $25 for best recipes, book reviews, horoscopes...
Adams House played host to the half-dozen army men, who seemed bewildered but generally pleased by Harvard. The men, buddies in their Quartermaster Corps outfit, toured the College, attended the Saturday night barn dance, and listened to the Army-Navy game...
...President Nicholas M. Schenck of Loew's, Inc. in 1934, got friendly with him over office luncheons at which each ate an apple. Three or four meetings and a half-dozen apples later, Schenck asked him a favor. Brother Joseph Schenck (onetime chairman of 20th Century-Fox, now appealing a three-year sentence for income-tax evasion) was gathering a fund to fight "sandbagging" of the movie industry by State legislatures. Somebody had to pick up the money from the industry, deliver...