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Outdoor Housekeeping. We saw washing on little lines strung up anywhere, on a wire fence, between two bumpers, two branches, across the pavement. During the hot days they wore trunks of the briefest style, looked very healthy and brown, and happy too. They really behaved like boys, playing ball, wrestling, and all sorts of queer games, and how they loved harmonicas, banjos and guitars...
Five years ago, in 1938, Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Swedon, on a visit to the United States received the LL.D. in the briefest and least publicized ceremony on record. The brevity and sudden action of this award presaged the "flying" degree presented today to Winston S. Churchill, Prime Minister of England...
...short-to make doubly sure everything you read in TIME is both knowing and accurate, we have harnessed the world's briefest and most concise magazine to one of the world's largest newsgathering staffs. And the day-to-day reports of our correspondents add up to a wealth of unpublished reporting which I am sure you will find most interesting...
...railroads successfully carried over 900,000 cars a week for seven successive weeks. This required the highest efficiency in operations they have ever achieved for more than the briefest periods. Big shippers were bemused by the unwanted solicitude of rail solicitors who looked for complaints before they were developed. The roads moved each freight car 44.1 miles a day (v. 35.3 miles in August 1940) and their ratio of available cars to cars in use was consistently at or near the record...
...hours later the Bismarck went down fighting after the briefest and wildest career of any modern battleship. With all the available sea power of Britain mobilized to intercept her before she could get back to her base, Berlin announced just after midnight Tuesday morning that for four hours the Bismarck had been "again engaged in a heavy fight with superior British naval units." Early Tuesday morning, the Bismarck radioed that she had been incapacitated, but "we will fight to the last hand grenade." And the last message before the Bismarck sank at 11 o'clock Tuesday morning said: "Ship...