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...blood's as thin now as Green River's 69 cent special will be in 1944. A Cambridge mosquito (they disguise themselves during the day as Harvard Yard pigeons) bit me last night and nearly strangled me. Reminded me of W. C. Fields when they tried to revive him in that movie. "I'm poisoned," he cried. "It's water...
Colossal ambitions consumed this small, wiry man with coal-black, cruel eyes and thin mustache. The prewar Government, he said, was corrupt and weak-stomached ("Always doddering ... it has no roots in the soil and is ... like a cut flower in a vase"), and it was up to Nakano to return Japan to the path of greatness. In the sword he saw the surest physician for Japan's ailments; in Hitler and Mussolini he saw proof that his prescription was right...
...week's end, the slogan had worn very thin. But Seattle was more aware than before of its silent responsibility toward the growing military traffic...
...author of "Duel for the Northland" asserted that the Norwegian underground movement was extremely strong, keeping in constant contact with the British. He added that most of the underground publications were edited by college students and that they were printed on very thin paper so that they could be swallowed by the reader if he were accosted by the Germans...
...busy day for King George VI. In rapid succession he received Field Marshal Smuts, the new Portuguese Ambassador, Ernest Bevin, Sir Alexander Cadogan (pronounced Ka-dug´-gan). But one of the longest audiences of the day was reserved for the sharp-eyed, thin-lipped commander of the U.S. Eighth Air Force in Britain, Texas-born Ira Clarence Eaker...