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...Novel Contest and the $125,000 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Annual Novel Award. The $145,000 is not the end of Mrs. Howard's windfall. M.G.M. will pay her up to $50,000 more if her book becomes a best-seller -and may offer her a writing contract to boot...
Canadians who fought under him knew Irish-born Field Marshal Alexander as a good soldier, a crack commander and a "simple, sensible type of fellow" to boot. He had been at Dunkirk, had commanded the British retreat in Burma, and the victorious campaigns in North Africa, Tunisia, Sicily, Italy...
...November 1, 1945. The length of training with the V-12 unit will be from one to three four-month terms, depending upon the individual's back-ground, and the needs of the Service. Failure to meet the standards of the V-12 unit will result in transfer to boot camp...
Next day the lackshirt President was deluged with shirts. Eddie had managed to get a half dozen, and "some red hot bow ties" to boot. So had Henry Bradley, a St. Joseph newspaper publisher. At "noon Kansas City's Jesters Club gave him three more-two the wrong size. Grinning, the President gave the Jesters some outside political talk: "When I hear the Republicans saying I'm doing all right, I know damn well I'm doing wrong. . . ." Two hours later Alf Landon visited him, came out praising him to the skies...
...against women "because they spend their lives making men think that unessential things, like furniture, napkins, sheets and silver plate, are essential," or "the blasted superficiality and bogus pretence of education." There were also the medico from a High land regiment with his Cornish remedy for colds ("Hang a boot over foot of bed, go to bed, drink whiskey till you see two boots, go to sleep"), and the genial host, Jack Barrett, full of his customers' reminiscences : one, asked if he never broke his marriage vows, answered, "I ain't never exactly broke...