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Died. John Munro Woolsey, 68, stocky, scholarly ex-federal judge whose pungent opinions on the legal nature of obscenity encouraged many a breezy headline; after long illness; in Manhattan. Most famed verdict, on James Joyce's Ulysses: ''Many of the words . . . characterized as dirty are old Saxon words known to almost all men and, I venture, to many women. . . . It must ... be remembered that [Joyce's] locale was Celtic and his season was spring...
...them to enlist, the airmen greeted him with shouts of "Why don't you call on the zombies?" From London came hints of more zombie trouble when Canada's turn comes to fight in the Pacific. Two of the Canadian Press's senior war correspondents - Ross Munro in Belgium and Douglas How in Italy - reported that "servicemen are anxious for assurance that Canada's home defense soldiers will be called upon to serve overseas when the European campaign ends...
...murders had occurred at Pavie, on the Caen-Bayeux highway, two days after Dday. Thirteen of the victims had been machine-gunned in a group. The Germans responsible were "members of the 12th SS Reconnaissance Battalion of the 12th SS Panzer Division." (The SS murderers, reported Canadian Pressman Ross Munro, had been Hitler Jugend-most of them less than 20 years...
Canadian Pressman Ross Munro, a veteran of Dieppe, Tunisia and Sicily, cabled from London: "The Allied second-front force is taking shape in the United Kingdom. But it appears probable that British, Canadian and American troops here will spend this Christmas in Britain. Talk that an invasion might be launched before the year-end can be pretty well brushed aside...
...Lean, quiet Ross Munro (Canadian Press), one of the best of all war reporters, went in with the Canadians and scooped the world. His copy, filed via Malta and London, was the first eyewitness story out of Sicily. It beat every U.S. correspondent by hours. Canadians, recalling how the Hearst press misplayed the Dieppe raid (which Munro covered) as an American adventure, felt compensated...