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...dimly lighted stage, a doctor appears to draw sausages and a balloon out of a G.I.'s gaping shoulder-while an announcer tells a ghost story...
...chance, never large, that Congress might pass a national service act vanished for good last week. Good news from the battlefronts sent optimism soaring like a balloon. Many a Congressman asked himself why the U.S. needed such a measure at this bright stage...
Like the small seaplane which dropped an incendiary bomb and started a forest fire in Oregon during 1942, the balloon had presumably been launched from an offshore submarine. But why? If it had carried men, where had they parachuted to earth? Since the balloon was designed to destroy itself in the air, had other earlier balloons sailed in across the Northwest undetected...
...Forces, which sent a balloon expert, Major J. F. Bolgiano, west to Montana, were not alone in their speculation. Residents of Kalispell, who kept mum until week's end at the Government's request, were engaged in fascinated discussion about what odd people the Japanese...
...officers in the field. But theater PROs get their orders from theater commanders, each of whom is boss in his own bailiwick. Washington would no more think of releasing anything which General Eisenhower had put a block on, or of pulling down anything which General MacArthur had put a balloon to, than it would think of rewriting the Ten Commandments...