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...night last November in the sub-basement of London's Broadcasting House, BBC Commentator Bruce Belfrage began to broadcast a summary of the news. Well aware was Newscaster Belfrage that somewhere over his head lay an unexploded bomb. Just as he was finishing his talk, saying "The postscript tonight-" there was a muffled explosion. Its vibrations were still audible when listeners heard an urgent voice whisper, "It's all right," and Belfrage wound up his talk amid ominous background noises. Meanwhile in BBC's overseas department, a broadcast in German went placidly on with only...
...Fern Gravel" was the pen name of a sub-teen authoress whose soul simultaneously exfoliated in and was griped by her Iowa home town, early in the 1900s. Her verses, now brought to light (she had entrusted them to the safekeeping of an adult confidant), are as good examples of dead-pan lyricism as have ever been printed...
...looked more like the strong man of the Cabinet. Onetime colonial administrator in Morocco and Tunisia, onetime Ambassador to Argentina, he is a politician who has kept out of the mainstream of politics. As Chief of Police, he has fired 57 out of 94 prefects, 230 out of 261 sub-prefects, appointed Army and Navy officers in their places. With the Foreign Ministry under Pierre Étienne Flandin, whom Petain does not trust either, the Marshal must have felt the need of a pair of shoulders as husky as M. Peyrouton...
...even the often interesting French cult of the soil is present. Absurdly mangled sub-titles assure you that the life of the French Canadians is, down at its firm and far-reaching roots, beautiful to behold. But blizzards and wolf-chewed corpses, ignorance and superstition, somewhat vitiate this argument. See Nazis for a better presentation...
...matter of fact, this quotation was actually made by the able John W. Davis prominent attorney and former Democratic candidate for the Presidency, before the Senate Judiciary Sub-Committee on Sept...