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Nice to See You. As the zero hour approached, friends pleaded and entreated with Marc to change his mind, to no avail. On the morning of Sept. 28, gloom hung like a pall in the bar of Le Practic. Even VoVo lay silent, crouched in a corner. Then someone, peering from the window, cried, "Why, there's Marc now!" And down the street, wearing the neat, pin-stripe suit that fitted him so snugly, came Marc. "I've decided to give myself a reprieve," he beamed. "Beefsteak with pepper, please, Madame. Well, it's nice...
...about a condition which permits Americans to be sent into combat and then have victory denied them, not by the enemy but by the very Government we were fighting to preserve . . . Have the words of MacArthur, Van Fleet, and the thousands upon thousands of Korean veterans been of no avail? Have over 24,000 American men, killed by steel from the sanctuary of Manchuria, died in vain...
...nothing to do with their travels, Alan Ladd made no bones about it. Said he: "After all, some 300,000 persons are doing the same thing, and why the motion picture players should be stigmatized is a mystery to me ... I see no reason why I should not avail myself of this exemption because...
...with his military duty. He simply swears that he has no means to pay for private care, and a 1935 law has been interpreted as forbidding the VA to check up on his story. Doctors and medical administrators have long protested this soft-headed provision, but to no avail. Last week Republican Congressman John Phillips of California told how it is being abused...
...Sawed-Off Skull. In the end, neither antibiotics nor leeches could avail. Stalin's heart raced faster & faster, up to 150 beats a minute, in its automatic effort to compensate for the small volume of blood it could pump. (The coronary artery, supplying the heart's own muscle was diseased like the rest.) Half of Stalin's brain was already dead. When his heart stopped the rest of the brain died and with...