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...blunt Swedish note last week rejected the German explanation of the Draken incident, added another protest on the finding of the mines. Said the note: "Swedish warships have been ordered to intervene against ships of warring powers laying mines or firing at other vessels in Swedish territorial waters...
...MURDER-William Rough-ead-Sheridan House ($2.75). Excellently written studies of eight famous 17th-and 18th-Century murders, including Pennsylvania's notorious Châpman murder (with arsenic: 1831) and the sensational French killing of the Duchess of Praslin by her husband (sharp and blunt instruments: 1847). Author Roughead's calm, intelligent, slightly old-worldly accounts (Twelve Scots Trials, Enjoyment of Murder) have made him, in Dorothy Sayer's words, "the best showman that ever stood before the door of a chamber of horrors...
...solid, crashing exception has been Union Pacific's bald, blunt, bull-built William M. Jeffers. As rubber czar, he memorized the Baruch report, especially the passage saying that "the program should be bulled through." Operating day & night on a devil-take-the-hindmost policy, "Bull Bill" Jeffers has butted his brow through so many walls, bellowed down so many other czars that he finally got a super-duper WPB priority overriding most other priorities...
Near the close of the command he has held for two and a half years, blunt Ben Lear gave his estimate of the young men the U.S. has sent him for training: essentially all right, but badly brought up. In a speech prepared for Army Day this week, General Lear gave civilian America an insight into the Spartan philosophy he has sought to instill. He also handed out a soldier's estimate of the old U.S. way of life...
...Commune's men looked at the ice, at each other, at the 85-ton ice plow attached to their boat's blunt bow. Their job, if they could do it, was to clear the Mississippi's channel so that oil barges could get to Minneapolis by the first week in April, two weeks before shipments had ever gone through before. Behind them, in St. Louis, the barges waited. Ahead, in Minneapolis, war factories waited for the oil. But the ice was thick, the weather still bitter cold, the Mississippi stubborn...