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...stringed orchestra in London's ancient, bomb-scarred Guildhall had just finished playing My Old Kentucky Home. In the sudden silence came the sound of an honor guard presenting arms outside, then the loud voice of an announcer near the door: "The Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force!" The crowd came to its feet with a roar. Down the aisle, behind slow-walking officials in fur-trimmed blue, came General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, his battle-dress pressed to Regular Army perfection, his face betraying his emotion. As he climbed to the dais, jammed with...
...Japanese suicide rocket bomb, fitted with a pilot's cockpit, steering controls and an explosive warhead in the nose. It may have been modeled after the pilotless German V-i robomb, which it resembles in size and destructive capacity. Japanese broadcasts have glorified it under the name Jinrai ("sudden peal of thunder"), but U.S. fighting men promptly tagged it with another Japanese term, baka ("stupid"). In operation, Stupid is carried near its target by a bomber, then cut loose. The pilot glides down and can fire three rockets in the tail to give him bursts of speed...
...from The Netherlands were true, Queen Wilhelmina, 64, might soon abdicate in favor of her son-in-law, Prince Consort Bernhard. At the same time she would raise his status from Prince Consort to King. Behind the rumored move were the Queen's age, the Prince's sudden popularity and the fluid Dutch political situation...
Said L'Epoque: "We see signs of a sudden and large improvement in international relations. We learn that the 'Big Three' have agreed on the veto rights, that we are now on the way 'to a solution of the Polish question' and lastly, in big print, that 'Russia is siding with the Anglo-Americans.' . . . International harmony returns with the decline of France and perhaps this decline was the price paid for it. We personally think that Iphigenia was not exactly in favor of being sacrificed and we are not so angelic...
...chances. Kicked around rather heartlessly among these three is Bill Williams, an unlucky lump of puppy love. During most of the film Mr. Young is about as systematically caddish as a man can well be and yet rate stellar billing; he even pretends to be torn away by sudden orders, purely for the purpose of setting a fire under the balky heroine. But in the long run, predictably, he finds that this amatory war differs from all the others, and that he has at last met his match...