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John Edgar Hoover last week called upon U. S. patriots to join his G-Men in a holy war: on spies, murderers, foreignisms, burglars, alien-minded mongrels, Utopian praters, saboteurs, subversive lawbreakers of every sort. "Here," cried the chief of FBI, "is a battle between priceless God-fearing principles on the one hand and pagan ideals and godlessness on the other. ... In these troubled days, when you strengthen the hand of law enforcement, you add power to the muscles of liberty. . . ." He added piously, "Our efforts must not develop into a witch hunt...
...them assured me several times that, as a tank officer, he was the winkle on the pin if war should ever begin in earnest. ... He enjoyed his dark saying as a priceless joke...
...their Crown Prince, and Swedish King Karl XIII adopted the Frenchman as his son under the name Prince Karl Johan. In the eight years which ensued before Sweden's old King died, the Crown Prince consolidated his position, became one of Sweden's popular figures, and this priceless asset the House of Bernadotte de Ponte Corvo has skilfully conserved for more than 100 years under five bourgeois and uniformly popular kings: Karl XIV, his only son Oscar I, his eldest son Karl XV who left no male heir, and his brother Oscar II, father of the present Gustaf...
...second-stringer at the beginning of the fall, he broke into the starting lineup at center in the Tufts game and proved himself by scoring the winning goal. In the Tech game he was the outstanding star, scoring another goal and coming close to several more. "Murphy" has a priceless talent for playmaking which is the factor that makes him a successful pivot man, but neither this nor his accuracy in setting up shots is as obvious to the layman as his speed and agility...
When Londoners began to cock their ears for bombs rather than Beethoven, London's concert halls shut up shop. But last week London music opened at a new stand, started doing a rushing business. The hall was London's venerable and massive National Gallery, whose thousands of priceless canvases were long since taken from their frames and stored "somewhere in England." Famed British Pianist Myra Hess and her teacher, 81-year-old Tobias Matthay, thought up the cheerful idea of filling the empty, tomblike gallery with popular-priced concerts for London's war-worried workers. With...