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...concensus following Thursday's smoker seemed to be that no matter how humble, there is nothing like home talent. Everybody was just crazy about J. Peter (Rosita Royce) Schaeffer and "her" Harvard Yard pigeon whose placid, fluffy beauty was brought in alive to flutter around during the er-a-dance. Rosita's statuesque loveliness captured the "imagination" of the Dog Baker-weary multitude no end, and Lt. (jg) P. L. Geibel, the tactics man, was besieged with requests for new instructions on solving the gm line. At about that time, however, the capacitance was about to overflow its square root...
...contrasts tall, gaunt, brooding Abraham Lincoln with short, broad, bustling Stephen Douglas. He points out that Hippocrates, father of medicine, observed that development of the embryo "is not the same for the same seed in summer as in winter nor in rain as in drought." Douglas, born of a placid, comfortable mother, was conceived during a peaceful Vermont summer, weighed 12 lb. (or more) at birth. He grew up in a snug, warm household, and his roly-poly build helped him withstand the buffetings of the weather. According to Dr. Petersen, the "broad type" is less upset by extremes...
...placid Puget Sound, the U.S.S. Casablanca, first of the 50 new small Kaiser aircraft carriers, triumphantly sped through its trial runs, just 236 days after the keel was laid...
...noon, and the tropic sun beat down on placid Macassar, in the Celebes, deep in the heart of The Netherlands Indies. Macassar had served the Jap well as an inner base through which to funnel supplies to forward areas. Last week there were six medium-sized cargo vessels in Macassar Harbor and a cruiser for protection. Suddenly the sky was darkened by a flock of fat-bellied Liberators, and a rain of explosives-incendiaries to one-ton bombs-fell on town and harbor. The Wilhelmina and Juliana docks burst into flame. A 2,000-pounder cracked the cruiser squarely...
German abuse of Sweden's neutrality long ago aroused the normally placid Swedes. Last week they seethed over two fresh incidents...