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Last week Admiral Darlan threw General de Fornel de la Laurencie in jail...
...Connecticut they found a big black woman who was "something called Baptist," tried chewing raw tobacco leaf, discovered they were being "kidded" when other youngsters in school asked them if they wanted Germany to win the war. School patriotism threw them into a flat spin. They thought at first the mumbled words of the salute to the flag meant "Routine and Justice...
...coal mines, the Duke was met by the secretary of the miners' federation, wearing a red tie and a red carnation. Housewives, "to demonstrate their political convictions," hung red petticoats on their clotheslines. The Duke smiled, talked, offered agricultural advice to kitchen gardeners. The petticoats disappeared. The secretary threw away his carnation. He could not get rid of his tie. "Blimey," he said, "I can't run around in front of a duke without a tie." Later the Duke organized his youth camps, a kind of British NYA, widely copied in the Dominions...
...ecstatic over America's good roads and standard of living. / / Private Hank Greenberg shone in close order drill and calisthenics, won a promotion to corporal. / / Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich (Lady Macbeth of Mzensk) went to work in Leningrad as a fire fighter. / / The public library of Southport, England, threw out 90 books by P. G. Wodehouse, termed them "waste paper." / / Wandering Ex-King Carol of Rumania showed signs of settling down: he bought two automobiles, leased for three months a residence in the Mexico City suburb of Coyoacan, was reported to have deposited a tidy...
...Norway patriots so damaged German communications and military establishments that the Germans seized 70 of Alesund's leading citizens as hostages. When the police escorted them to a ship for transportation to Germany 5,000 Norwegians tried to rescue them, got into a fight with German marines. Men threw stones and women nailed with umbrellas. Finally one of the hostages, Harold Roenneberg, appealed for order, ended his appeal with "Long Live the King!" The crowd then stood bareheaded and sang the national anthem, Ja, Vi Elsker Dette Landet...