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Maurice Dekobra, French novelist, specializing in svelte sex (Bedroom Eyes, The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars), foresaw the atomic destruction of almost everything except Tahiti, made out his will and sat down to await the end in Hollywood. He bequeathed his "17,000 books . . . paintings . . . works of art" to Tahiti, left his typewriter and Pomeranian to the Martians, signed his body over to science for the possible development of "a serum . . . against the seven capital sins...
Without much hope of success, defense counsel said they would appeal to a higher court, and, if necessary, to the House of Lords. William Joyce was whisked away to await the noose at the famous Hammersmith prison, Wormwood Scrubs...
...took him only two years to work out his method of extracting cosmic rays from outer space. In 1912 he built a cosmic aerial, a cosmic booster box and a small cosmic rectifier. Jubilantly he moved to Long Beach, Calif., to await recognition...
Everybody was sure that the Andrews Sisters had done it to death-but military bands took it up again. During the war, it brought in money by the barrel; big U.S. and British royalties now await...
...Whatever needs repair is left behind, at great collecting points. In NÜrnberg, as the liberated remnants of the Wehrmacht plod homeward past the great stadium where Hitler ranted, they see it turned into a vast parking lot. where thousands of vehicles, artillery and materiel of all kinds await redeployment...