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...hard to quench the fever of revolt which was rising ever higher in France. Last week trains loaded with Nazi troops and materiel were derailed, Nazi soldiers were assassinated. To seething, rebellious Paris, Adolf Hitler sent his chief executioner, lean, cold Reinhard Heydrich, whose name has become a horrid byword wherever hostages' eyes are bandaged and their arms bound...
Along Princeton's Nassau Street undergraduates hailed each other last week with a new cry: "Are you accelerating?" Acceleration was becoming a campus byword, for as they opened a new term this week most U.S. colleges began a speeded-up program that cut their four-year course to three years or less...
...fancy new touch: Trohan wrote that the British actually sang a song (to the tune of There'll Always Be An England) which ran: "There'll always be a dollar, as long as we are here." "Charge it to Lend-Lease", wrote Mr. Trohan, "is a byword at British headquarters...
...radio Sherlock Holmes, brash Mr. Skelton has become a national byword because of his beguiling skill at inventing and solving murder mysteries and sundry crimes. Such is his fame that he is kidnapped by a racketeering evangelist (Conrad Veidt) for the express purpose of devising a police-proof way of eliminating a human stumbling block to an inheritance the cultist has his eye on. Put to the test, The Fox-assisted by some expert mugging and a knowledge of radios -not only traps the evangelist but manages to produce considerable hilarity in the process...
Ironically, the blow fell while Export was staging a victory dance on another front. It had invaded Pan Am's semiprivate preserve-Latin America-by buying a phenomenally successful line called TACA (Transposes Aereos Centre Americanos). To the superstitious natives of Central America, TACA is a byword with a touch of magic. Many of them who have never seen an automobile cheerfully clamber into a TACA transport, grin across the aisle at U. S. or English businessmen heading to or from Pan Am's main stem...