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...armed forces, in Algiers: "I am glad you are on the spot.* You can act. Keep me informed." It was Admiral Darlan, according to reports, who surrendered Algiers. He was a U.S. prisoner and rumor held that he might be persuaded to another ratlike twist of his career: a shift to the anti-Vichy side. As for Vichy's unsavory Chief of Government Pierre Laval, this wiliest of the men of Vichy was said to have hastened to Rome for a worried meeting with Hitler and Mussolini...
...original shift was made necessary by an injury to Smith in the William and Mary game, but he has been doing contact work for two weeks now, and his performance for the time he was in against Michigan convinced Harlow and Line Coach Lyal Clarke that he was ready to be in at the kickoff...
...Halsey, a fighting man. But the people saw the shift more as evidence of previous bungling than as a hopeful sign...
...Swiss reporters turned bland, unimpressed faces toward this routine announcement. Then Dr. Schmidt leaned his plump, manicured hands flat on the heavy table. "There will be," he said viciously, "no place for such editors in the new Europe. We will make short shift of them. Perhaps they will find their future home in the steppes of Asia, or maybe it would be best simply to send them off into the Great Beyond...
...Francisco the keepers tried to force a mate on Bill, the polar bear. "She would fiddle with doilies, empty ash trays, wash out his briar pipe with soap and water. . . . When she started hanging his ties on a patented, nickel-plated cedarwood tie rack [with] an automatic clip-shift tie release," Bill murdered her. Author Thurber loves Bill...