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While pirate-costumed waiters whooped: "Avast, swabs!" and "Ahoy, landlubbers!" photographers climbed over everybody in search of shots and the band climbed down a rope from a hole in the ceiling. Everybody had a good drink but when they woke up the next noon, they found the Nazis were still in France and Hollywood was full of martial portents...
...Screams woke the Rev. Edward Doherty, assistant pastor of the only Catholic church for Negroes in Natchez, who lives near the hall. Because "Negro women having a good time in the club frequently screamed like that," he paid no attention at first, arrived belatedly in time to give general absolution. Thirty-two of his parishioners died...
...annual outing is over. A harmless affair this year, it was in gentle contrast to some of its more pugnacious predecessors. It furnished a safety-valve for a lot of steam raised by the spring sun from rain-soaked undergraduate souls. Naturally it woke up a few people, but there were no serious fights, no property damaged and no one was hurt. Ho hum, pass the liver pills, Roderick...
...expected a Nazi grab at Denmark and Norway-b,ut not before May 1. The night Hitler jumped the gun, Norway's slight, long-nosed Minister Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstierne paid a midnight visit to Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle. A telephone call from busy Mr. Berle woke Cordell Hull at 1 a.m.: Franklin Roosevelt was allowed to sleep on until 3 a.m. A special train was waiting to return the President to Washington by nightfall. Secretary Hull rushed back. So did Denmark's greying, baronial Minister Henrik de Kauffmann, who was visiting in Charleston...
Last week even political experts woke up to a fact as plain as the nose on Uncle Sam's face: that the U. S. was going Republican as fast as it decently could. Even more joyful to eye-rubbing GOPsters was another dawning fact: that the magic name of Franklin Roosevelt had lost a lot of its abracadoomph...