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...usual the agents were meticulously trained, as correctly equipped with secret inks, money, jewels and forged documents as second-string characters in an Eric Ambler mystery. Furthermore, one of them was a U.S. citizen and knew his way around. But, as usual, U.S. agents swung into step behind them almost as soon as they landed. Last week, 33 days after their arrival, the FBI announced that both had been arrested, issued a report strewn with dismantled parts of the Nazi plot...
Elizabeth May Craig, Washington correspondent of a string of Maine newspapers, picked the word up and tossed it back at him: "I have a contentious question, Mr. President, but I would like a serious answer. Are you going to the right or to the left...
...Another string of bombs started to whine down. The noise . . . starts high in pitch and slides down the scale. . . . And the longer it whines the closer it seems to get, until you are sure that when it does explode it will be at the back of your head...
Slow, Big Shivers. "Another bomber roared overhead, quite low, and I saw the first string of flares splash into flame; it was dead ahead of me and it looked close enough to touch. I flopped back on the bottom of the trench and began to shake. The whine started again and I thought, 'They are going to get me this time. . . .' I tried to sink my head into my shoulders, turtle fashion, and I closed my eyes. The whine crept down the scale and I shook, not like shivering from cold but slower and bigger. Some...
...clugere, condoro, and string players of the Browne and Nichols School, Buckingham School, and Longy School of Music will present a carol service tomorrow afternoon at 5:30 o'clock in the Fogg Art Museum, Miss Lorraine-Warner will direct the program, while G. Wallace Woodworth, associate professor of Music and director of the Glee Club, accompanies on the organ, and Willie Pay on the plane...