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...wounded when an irate reader beat them to the draw. Even that affray was grist for their newsmill. Blustered Bonfils: "A dogfight in Champa Street is better than a war abroad." The maxim was drilled into George Creel, Gene Fowler, many another bright pupil in the Post's hell-for-leather journalism school...
...military men planned to explode one bomb in the air over a fleet of 97 ships moored in the atoll; then to detonate a second bomb placed on a float, to see what kind of hell the thing would raise at water level...
...Canadian Prisoners of War Relatives Association took over the entire convention floor of Toronto's bustling Royal York Hotel. Manager Jack Johnson battened down his furniture, opened the doors of his concert and banquet halls, and shuddered. Into the rooms swarmed 1,500 former captives, all of them hell-bent for a do. Among them were veterans of the fall of Hong Kong, wearing a gold "H.K." on a circular red patch; survivors of Dieppe; scores of airmen shot down over Hamburg, Berlin, Leipzig, Magdeburg and Stuttgart. Some of the celebrants had been flown in by a former R.C.A.F...
...tired of being patronized by the swing kings. Says Bob: "They say, 'That guy made $340,000 last year and don't know what he's doin'.' Hell, I know what I'm doin' all right-I'm just playin' the kind of music my kind of folks like to hear...
...Party-party" is the current word for it at Wisconsin's Beloit College. It applies to homecomings, and to "hell weeks" (during which freshman coeds have to do such tricks as painting class numerals on their cheeks and dancing the conga backwards). Last week Beloit had an official party, with Novelist Lin Yutang as an honored guest, to celebrate its 100th birthday...