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...warehouse-morgue, reporters found the doors barred by soldiers with machine guns. Newsmen on the scene suddenly found Army M.P.s imposing a strict censorship: an A.P. cameraman was arrested, a Red Cross photographer had all his film destroyed. The M.P.s had stupidly followed the line of an A.C.L. district chief, who said the railroad did not want "that kind of publicity." A terse directive from the War Department told the M.P.s to stop meddling...
...when she sang before the Spokane Citizens' Club. Before she was 14 she had become a ballet and tap dancer, and an expert in what she calls "artistic whistling." For the past three years she has lived in Manhattan with her mother, who holds her to a strict daily routine: 10:30 to noon, voice lesson; 1 to 3, operatic coaching; 3 to 4, Italian lesson; 4 to 5, French lesson; 5 to 6, another voice lesson. At 6 Patrice is entitled to dinner. Her favorite dish: pickled herring with an onion on an apple...
Brooklyn's Tony Guarino went overseas with strict instructions from his father to be sure to look up his Aunt Theresa in Sorrento-if he happened to be going that way. Aunt Theresa, Father Guarino swore, made the best spaghetti to be found in all Italy...
...pilots. Under high-altitude flying conditions (reduced oxygen pressure), oldsters actually stand up better than youngsters: they are less likely to faint or collapse (apparently because they have more stable cardiovascular systems), suffer less loss of memory. With glasses, McFarland believes, many pilots up to 60 can pass the strict flying vision tests; one big airline has 100 pilots over...
...grocery business while traveling about Michigan opening new stores for giant Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. He also learned that the way of the small town independent grocer is hard, and decided to stay out until he had a saving trick up his sleeve. Last February, he cannily foresaw the strict rationing ahead, and guessed that coupon-confused housewives would give a rib-cracking welcome to an old-fashioned grocery store, where there was no such vexing thing as "points...