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...competition was keen. Some of the boys, anxious to get their stories moving ahead of their rivals, wrote "eye-witnessers" in advance. One even faked an "interview" with Bombardier Harold H. Wood, the man who dropped the bomb. ("It was like dropping a cherry on a frosted cake.") And to make it authentic, the reporter added a personal detail: "I was thrown against a bulkhead and my typewriter knocked off the table by the jarring blast...
...should we deny ourselves cake so that those people may have bread? If they can't look after themselves, let them starve. We owe them nothing...
...days, the incredible Jap fought his way from the Luzon beaches, down through the mountains to Manila. He occupied Manila and poured onto the rocky, forested peninsula of Bataan. His power was an orderly flame. Down went the docks, warehouses, airfields. Down were to come the sugar-cake houses of the rich, the country clubs, the magnificent hotels, the Government buildings. And hundreds of thousands of Filipinos were still to die. The "death march" and the rape were yet to come...
Senator Glen Taylor of Idaho starred in a little silly-season whoop-te-do over Washington's radio station WRC. Senator Claude Pepper bravely tooted his harmonica, Congressman James Percy Priest struggled with a guitar, a quartet sang, but Taylor and his banjo took the cake with Cowboy Joe from Idaho. As the legislator "most likely to succeed in radio," he got $100 from Senator Claghorn-in Confederate money, that...
Eighty-five percent of the voters, polled by the Student Council Food Relief Committee in House and Union dining halls, favored retention of the present bread, cake, and wheat cereals rationing; 14 percent disapproved, and one percent expressed no choice. The money pledge proposal was rejected by 68 percent of, the voters and approved by 23 percent, with nine percent silent...