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...Dublin's 75,000 school kids last week, a springtime dream had come true. Their teachers, bless their hearts, had gone on strike. Mad through & through at official procrastination, they had walked out of their classrooms for the first time in Irish history, with no sign of going back...
...hulking "Cap" Krug* the President had a man the Senate would bless-a New Dealer who had cannily made a middle-of-the-road record, a successful young administrator who had cannily avoided making political enemies. The President had picked a man who had no love for Harold Ickes-for the first time Washington had the feeling that Harry Truman had slipped one of his tormentors the needle. He also had a man who liked to work...
...grey and battered troopship Argentina hove into New York harbor after a nightmare voyage across the Atlantic. The passengers were 451 British wives of American G.I.s, and their 175 children. Nine days before, they had left Southampton alternately singing There'll Always Be an England and God Bless America...
...lost in the mists of the China coast. Deshazer chuted down and was taken prisoner by the Japs. As he lay hungry, in solitary confinement, Sergeant Deshazer had a vision. A forgiving God spoke to him in the words of the Sermon on the Mount: Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good unto them that hate you, and pray for them which do spitefully use you, and persecute...
Roared Columnist Austen Lake in the Boston American: "If Private McGee-God bless him-socked nine Heinies for refusal to follow work orders it is no more than nine million other guys in our Army have been yearning to do for years." In Boston and New York, Hearstlings set "storm of protest" experts to work, got shocked statements from statement-givers, bombarded Congressmen with telegrams. Upshot: Private McGee was reinstated. (Other newspapers went along cautiously; some suspected that there might be something wrong with a private of seven years' standing...