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...Dewey could not compete with the Champ when it came to sustained sarcasm; but he threw one sudden and effective sarcastic punch, when he announced that Franklin Roosevelt was indispensable : "He is indispensable to Harry Hopkins, Madame Perkins, Harold Ickes . . . the Mayor of Jersey City . . . to Sidney Hillman . . . and to Earl Browder...
...Arthur V. McDermott, inquired into this enlistment phenomenon. He found that before June scarcely an occupationally deferred man over 30 had volunteered. But beginning in June nearly 6% of all New Yorkers inducted were over 30; of these 87% were volunteers. Draft officials believe the main reason for this sudden scramble for uniforms is that the essential war worker, over 30, figures 1) the fighting is so nearly over that there is little chance of his being shipped out, and 2) even if he is, he will get good mustering-out pay and be eligible for any future soldier bonuses...
...meeting in its history. Purely an advisory body,* it had long been regarded as membered by impatient reformers. But this year the Council demanded a full accounting of China's wartime administration and delivered itself of responsible criticism on every part of China's crisis. Result: a sudden ray of hope in China's blackest year...
Swoop and Pounce. Nobody was more interested in armistice terms than the Bulgarians, whom the Russians had knocked in & out of a war by a sudden swoop and pounce last week. Delegates of Premier Kimon Georgiev's new Government might be the next guests in Spasso House. The Red Army was already in Sofia...
Then the latest success story: Gil Cross's poem on the "Lackawanna' pulling him up by his run-down heels into super-brilliant prominence. Through all his sudden success, Gil remains natural as ever--even speaking to non-Californians...