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...general easing of the armistice terms given to Rumania when she abandoned" Adolf Hitler and his works a year ago. Items: ¶ Russia agreed to a "request" to return control of Rumanian railroads, restore part of Rumania's Black Sea and Danube shipping fleets (including a flea-bitten fleet of small warcraft) taken as prizes...
...other casualty was Lewis Francis Ford, a truck driver and lay preacher of the Dolly Pond Church of God in the hamlet of Grasshopper, Tenn. Brother Ford was a new man with snakes; he had handled them only since last July 22. He was bitten before he really started praying. His father explained afterward...
...soon as he had died, his wife requested snake handling at the funeral. Almost 3,000 people came to watch. The brethren played guitars, cymbals and tambourines and when they got to shouting good, the snake handling began. The Rev. Raymond Hayes of Grasshopper put the serpent that had bitten Brother Ford into the coffin. It coiled up quietly on Brother Ford's chest. In the excitement Brother Hayes was bitten by a rattler, but he paid it no heed and felt all right afterward...
...Tempe, Ariz., Marshal Walter Baker, bitten by a dog who promptly died of an undetermined cause, was bitten by another dog, who promptly died of an undetermined cause...
Story of G.I. Joe (United Artists) is an attempt to picture the infantryman's war as the late Ernie Pyle saw it. Pyle himself (played in the film by Burgess Meredith) and nine fellow correspondents supervised and vouched for the movie's hard-bitten authenticity. The result is far & away the least glamorous war picture ever made. It is a movie without a single false note. It is not "entertainment" in the usual sense, but General Eisenhower called it "the greatest war picture I've ever seen...