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...Australian troops who fought in Greece and Crete were re-equipped for mountain fighting with the very things they lacked last time: mortars, pack artillery, mules...
...year ago--though there has never been any moment half so perilous as that when Dunkirk fell. The situation since then has steadily improved. The talk these last 12 months has been more like the baying of frightened dogs than the discussion of reasonable men. And loud in the pack have been members of the Harvard Faculty. They have raved, and raged, and roared, as though the enemy were hammering at our very gates. If they seem now to be getting a little tamer it is not because they are more sensible, but rather because there is a limit...
...Young Bob coaxingly assisted his blind father and 13-year-old sister to pack their bag & baggage, got a berth on a West African ship and sailed down to the Gold Coast. Last week blind Papafio went on the miue (Government Station ZOY) to tell his three and a half million countrymen how the blitz was going on in England...
...Family is not all about Boy Town and fist fights. There are Mother's efforts to make both ends meet, Grandma's efforts to break up the children's ungodly card playing. Grandma found that burning a whole pack of cards in the stove in her room was too much bother, so she sabotaged sin by slyly removing just one card from each new deck. It was always the ace of spades, and Author Partridge believes the old lady thought the ace was the devil's hoofprint...
MICHIGAN: William J. Hornbeck, Muskegon; Cornelius J. Pack, Iron Mountain...