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Many parents kept their children away, some for safety's sake. But teachers told of young boys put to work hawking firewood to bolster family earnings, of girls taught to beg money on street corners. Some children simply ran wild...
Could never beg, borrow...
...rises above its amateur limitations in its opening number, "Three Little Section Men," which features Lee A. Dimond '41, William D. Schall '41, and Stern as three fugitives from sex. To another catchy tune, Edwin G. Eklund '42, Thomas Eliot '41 and Julian Sobin '41, the "DeWolfe Street Debutantes" beg to be passed...
...complex Garand, Winchester Repeating Arms Co. at last was almost ready to begin quantity production. But Ordnance officers were still unhappy about Melvin Johnson and all his works, including his latest: a 14-lb. (when loaded; 12-lb. empty), super-simple, one-man machine gun. The Department continued to beg inventors to devise a 22-lb. light machine gun, up to last week had neither offered nor been asked to test the new Johnson. Having been told (unofficially, but unmistakably) that he could never do business with the U. S. Army, Inventor Johnson perforce took his deadly darlings to foreign...
...will be too late." ^ The U. S. must prepare to cooperate "economically and spiritually" with Germany on a "barter basis-the only basis Germany now knows, because she was forced to employ the barter system." Added Prophet Merten on a hint from wife Zelah: "I beg, after consideration, that you mention my connections with the American Embassy in Berlin only on your social pages, in a separate story, rather than in this interview which I dictated." Still on the Embassy payroll for two months' accumulated leave, he announced he was off to the Capital to expound his new gospel...