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...Ephmen are given the nod...
...work, 20 years; Wilhelm Keppler, Hitler's economic adviser, ten years. When mousy little Otto Dietrich, Hitler's press chief, heard his sentence he turned to one of his tall G.I. guards, held up seven fingers and asked: "Sieben?" The guard confirmed his question with a brief nod and gently steered him from the room...
...scoring laurel went to Bob Baldwin, who hit the goal three times and was acclaimed as the most valuable player again. Nod Yost, playing the crease, scored two points, as did attack Lou Schaffer. George Bender, another attack, and midfielders Pete Lynch and Frank Deinfield each tallied...
...time Garrick reached fame, the English stage was in a condition of happy disorder. Shakespeare's plays had been murderously rewritten; King Lear had a happy ending and Macbeth had been refitted with low-comedy witches. While one actor rumbled through his speeches, another might nod to his friends in the audience, fix his buttons or ostentatiously spit on the stage. Audiences were noisy and quarrelsome, and privileged dandies would stand in the wings loudly gossiping. Occasionally, a drunken beau would stray on to the stage to kiss the leading lady...
...heads a few months ago. Said a mechanic, grumbling over an announced renewal of gas rationing: "Why should we have gas rationing when the rest of the world is doing away with rationing? We are a rich country. We must have been badly governed." Many an Argentine worker would nod in solemn agreement...