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...literature all its own, all of which Austin Wright invented. Its inhabitants wore what the English of that period would have called "rational dress" (knickers of navy blue broadcloth were correct for men), and their furnishings and architecture rather suggest the tastes of Frank Lloyd Wright (no kin to the author...
...Madame Berthelot, during World War I, had been one of the "tactful, well-bred," crepe-hung women sent by the solicitous French Government to break the news to the next of kin when soldiers were killed in action. The women must "neither be attractive enough to take men's thoughts away from grief nor ugly enough to scare the stricken children." Later Madame Berthelot worked in the passport bureau. There she owed her promotion from a hard to an easy job to her second cousin by marriage, a petty official called The Navet (Turnip). He got her promoted...
...kin to the great German romanticist, Robert Schuman, Composer William Schuman is a forthright Manhattan-born Yankee. Son of a lithographer, he started his career as a Tin-Pan Alley composer, collaborating with Frank Loesser in such gems as In Love With the Memory of You. Now he teaches composition and leads the chorus at Sarah Lawrence College...
Reason for this anomalous situation was that the Navy was abiding by OFF policy, conceived in humanity, that ship sinkings should not be announced until next-of-kin of all casualties had first been notified. The Langley's casualty list was hopelessly snarled when her survivors, rescued by the Pecos, were plunged into the sea again when the Pecos, in her turn, went down. The story was finally broken, because the longer it was withheld the more would public confidence be shaken in the Government's candor about bad news, but even after 35 days the casualty lists...
Simple, said Editor Shaw. Pearl Harbor inspired the idea. Clevelanders were invited in December to fill out a coupon in the Press describing the servicemen they were interested in, giving name of unit, home address, names of kin, anything else of interest. In return the Press promised to tell them any news it had about the servicemen concerned. Over 5,000 coupons have rolled in, usually with photographs. Keeping the file is a fulltime job for two staff members. But it has paid off handsomely in circulation...