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...while, "like a drug for her tortured nerves, she indulged in her orgies of buying things . . . things she could never use, for which she could never hope to pay." In four months she bought 300 pairs of gloves. She paid $3,000 for earrings and a pin, $5,000 for a shawl. She once told her seamstress she owed $27,000. "Does Mr. Lincoln know?" she was asked. Said Mrs. Lincoln...
Franklin Roosevelt-who had been tipped off by radio to the reception that awaited him-sat still, calm, relaxed, happy; his hair slicked back, black doughnut circles gone from his eyes. He wore loose grey tweeds, a light blue shirt, striped blue-on-blue tie, gold collar pin. Sallow Harry Hopkins sat near by against the wardroom's green-grey bulkhead, eyes narrowed watchfully except when he twitched a smile at a face he knew. From the table's green felt top the President picked a Camel, lit it, stuffed it with his thick awkward fingers into...
...policemen but U.S. Border Patrolmen guard the 900-odd Italians who are detained at scenic Missoula because there is no way of deporting them. The detainees (never referred to as prisoners) govern themselves, spend their time reading, listening to the radio, playing games, doing chores for pin money. They are not forced to work. Name of the camp, chosen by the inmates, is "Bella Vista" (see cuts...
...Navy men keep their most anxious eye on the water bridge east through Mid way. Beyond Wake, the bridge passes through the Japanese mandated islands. Since the early '30s Japan has worked hard building up air bases in this cluster of hundreds of islands and her other pin points of land in the Pacific. On Yap, on Palau, on more other islands than Navymen like to think about, she has stored fuel, erected air and submarine bases, may even have established bases for light surface craft...
...warning: "Re member that you are Naval officers as well as Naval aviators." To show that these are no idle words, the Navy spends the first six weeks of its precious training time schooling the novice cadets in its traditions, odd jargon and technical functions. Before a cadet can pin on the silver bar of a Second Classman - the happy sign that he is at last flying - he must bone up for many a long, hot and sleepy hour on the rudiments of engines, aerodynamics, aerology, gunnery, navigation, the dit-dit-dahs of radio code...