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...Prensa's Co-Director Tito Gainza Paz asserts that 1) his paper has no agreement with anyone "either to print news or to refrain from printing news"; 2) despite severe newsprint shortage, it still prints 15 to 24 columns of foreign news. As of the present, however, Editor James's claim for the Times is doubtless correct. Certainly the Times has one of the world's outstanding coverages of foreign news...
...streets and in company a gentleman should be "Grave, Settled and attentive," should refrain from swatting "Fleas, lice, ticks &c in the Sight of Others." A gentleman should not run, dawdle, or walk with his mouth open, shaking his arms and kicking his feet "in a Dancing fashion." Clothes should not be "foul, unript [torn] or Dusty," hands should not be put "to any Part of the Body, not usually Discovered...
Relatively green but eager to show the Marines (whose refrain "Where the hell is the Army?" had been ringing in their ears for two months at rear bases), the newly arrived Army men peeled back the Japs for nearly seven miles, beyond Koli Point to the Metapono River...
...resulting comments and discussions, oral and printed, have been detrimental to the War Department's efforts to foster an atmosphere of mutual respect and cooperation between the Army and the Navy, which is essential to the successful prosecution of the war. You are therefore directed to refrain from all public, written and oral comment on the conduct of the war and on questions relating to the tactical use and organizational relationships of the armed forces of the U.S. or its allies...
...Blues in the Night, written for a Warner Brothers musical, sold over a million copies. By last week another Mercer opus. Strip Polka (for which the versatile Johnny had written the tune as well as the words), was No. 2 on Variety's list of bestsellers. Its homely refrain...