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...nation's great Roman Catholic laymen, and in 1937 he visited the Vatican. The next year he became a papal privy chamberlain. With his wife, who had once hung big washings on East Side clotheslines, he now lived handsomely on Fifth Avenue, resplendent in pin-striped double-breasted suits, piped vests, spats and fawn-colored derbies...
With almost metronomic precision, the Dewey train clacked West. It arrived late only once (Des Moines); if it was ahead of time, it loitered in the yards so as to arrive in town on the very pin point of schedule. The advance of the train was prepared for with the crispest American efficiency. This at first bored, then interested, then absorbed the 63 newsmen on the train...
Last week from London's War Office came a new story of one of those old regiments. The place: Mont Pinçon, highest tor in Normandy, strongly held by the Germans. The time: four days after Minden Day, 1944. A British battalion had bogged down at a small stream footing the mount. Small groups tried to rush the bridge. Each time they were mowed down. The battalion's lieutenant colonel was 30-year-old John Child Pearson of Blundellsland (near Liverpool), who sported the wide mustache that Sandhurst's young graduates affect. Somewhere he found...
Altogether, he had a stack a foot high-pictures of Australian girls, native women with nothing above the waist, movie actresses, pin-up girls. He sent this whole stack to his girl with a note: 'I don't remember exactly who you are, but if your picture is among these, please pick it out and send the rest back to me.' '' The men moved to the diner...
...bank was going to foreclose a loan on the Free Press. When this news got around, Quitman quickly showed what it thought of the Free Press and its editor. A new note got so many endorsers that Miss Edna could not find room for her own signature, had to pin...