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...limited defense of the Scheldt basin; a student of army motorization, a specialist in communications, a believer in preventive mobilization. Last February, Defense Minister Denis substituted energetic Major General F. F. 0. Michiels as Chief of Staff in place of less pro-Ally Lieut. General Emile Van den Bergen, whose kidney was not for a "lastman" defense...
...Berlin. Ward speaks American and wisecracks American. Of the blackouts in Copenhagen month ago he cracked: "Here all is darker than the Republican mood after the November election. . . . The streets of Copenhagen are blacker than Father Divine." Of English reverses in Norway he remarked facetiously: "Charlie McCarthy's Bergen is the only one of that name not entirely encompassed by Germans." Back in Berlin May 1 he joked about British efforts to save cloth: "London . . . theatre managers have already stripped their chorus and show girls down to their epidermis. They've solved the costume problem by presenting their...
...Norse were singularly unable or reluctant to dynamite major communication lines as they retreated. Not one of 178 tunnels on the railroad between Bergen and Oslo was closed. In one place the Germans actually fought their way through a tunnel three miles long...
...whom is Transamerica, most of whom are small-money Westerners who admire old A. P. Among them they will absorb more than half the issue. To assure widespread distribution, nobody can buy more than $50,000 worth (without special permission). Heading the syndicate are Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co., John J. Bergen & Co., Ltd. and Cyrus Eaton's Otis & Co. of Cleveland, a widespread-distributionist from way back. Among the 80 underwriters, conspicuously few are Wall Street firms...
...Variety program: NBC's multi-sponsored Breakfast Club (replacing Chase & Sanborn's Bergen-McCarthy...