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Managing editor: beefy, stogie-smoking, 47-year-old George ("Ash") De Witt, fired three weeks ago (the second time in five years) from the managing editorship of the Washington Times-Herald. His qualifications: 19 years' Chicago experience with Hearst's now-defunct Chicago Herald & Examiner; a plugging talent for local news; five years' experience under Colonel McCormick's temperamental cousin Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson, publisher of the Times-Herald...
Admitting that "hunger and internal confusion as aids in breaking the Russian resistance" were unpredictable elements, the Germans undertook a heavy and lengthy bombardment of the city. All day long-range Nazi cannon, skulking in ash-colored Karelian soil, cracked high explosives into Leningrad's defenses. All night the Eighth Air Corps and the ugly "black beetles" of the Luftwaffe's smart Richthofen Squadron dealt out destruction, until the night glowed red with fire and death...
...jauntily in his cocky walk, a long, specially made cigar crunched in his teeth. He wore his Trinity House uniform of dark blue, the effect of its eight brass buttons slightly marred by the grey marks where he had hastily brushed away the little mound of silver grey cigar ash that collects on his stomach as he sits slouched down.* His zippered ankle-high shoes were half unzipped. He handed a letter to Franklin Roosevelt, said: "I have the honor, Mr. President, to hand you a letter from His Majesty the King...
with human nature, accept the situation. Many military planes have ash trays in them. But as for crack Test Pilot Stanley Umstead, if Reader Epstein had scrutinized his picture closely (see cut], she might have seen that his cigar has no ash on it. Umstead smokes a good deal, but often sticks an unlighted cigar in his mouth and simply gnaws...
Socks. Somewhere in England, Sapper Archie Campbell of Montreal went to his quartermaster for a new pair of socks. Attached to them was a paper saying they had been knit by Mrs. A. M. Campbell, 462 Ash Ave., Point St. Charles-his wife...