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...raid. New recruits constantly arrive at the highland camps; replacements must be continuous, because the Commandos' losses are inevitably high. But the veterans of the Lofotens and Boulogne, the few who returned from St. Nazaire, the new men waiting for their first raid-all have a constant refrain between jobs. "Why," they ask, "are we waiting...
Conferences between the F.B.I. and Northwestern's President Snyder and other University officials resulted in a virtual ultimatum to the Daily to refrain from making any comment whatever in regard to the War; as an alternative it offered a faculty censor to blue-pencil every item slated to appear. The off-shoot was a farcical situation in which the Daily began living in a vacuum, apparently oblivious of such things as Defense Stamps, War Production Boards, Panzer Divisions, and Japanese...
...Famous Orchestra and Ethel Waters in a thoroughly enjoyable sixty-five minutes. Despite sundry sepia entertainers from the Duke's revue, "Jump for Joy," the band itself was, as always, the big news, whether showing off its soloists or weaving a subdued and subtle background to a vocal refrain. Miss Waters was very good, special accompanist and all, but on at least one occasion I found myself trying to hear what Lawrence Brown's trombone was doing in the offing...
Sirs: Suggest that you refrain from using TIME'S important front cover for likenesses such as that of the yellow ape on your issue of Dec. 22. ... EDWIN DREXEL GODFREY Irvington-on-Hudson...
...When an A.P. dispatch from Egypt, undoubtedly passed by the British censors, reported the establishment of a U.S. "arsenal" in Eritrea, the War Department belatedly described this as "essential military information" and asked newspapers to refrain from publishing it. This attempt to conceal information that was already public knowledge abroad-a good example of confusing the U.S. people with the enemy-was frustrated by the fact that U.S. papers had already published...