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...screen test." Hearst begs him to accept $50,000 a year for some random reportage. He has another bedside chat with the President (Lanny edits one of F.D.R.'s speeches, in which he invents and inserts the phrase "arsenal of democracy"), and is off to see Adolf Hitler chew a rug. Göring smuggle a swallow of dope, and "Rudi" Hess resolve to fly to England...
President Truman gave UNO delegates in London something to chew on. The U.S., he said, is going to hang onto the islands it needs in the Pacific...
...outsiders, Politico Harold E. Stassen, Republican ex-Governor of Minnesota, gave the N.A.M. most to chew on. Candidly admitting that he has often disagreed with N.A.M., he fully agreed with its championing of free enterprise, suggested a ten-year plan to make it work better (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...grill, over their "peanut betweens" and "Garbo with jams" (English muffins with jam), Exonians last week had two distressing subjects to chew over. They had just lost, 7-to-18, the Big Game with rival Andover, 28 miles away. And their headmaster, tweedy, well-loved Lewis Perry, 68, who had long talked of quitting, had now made it official...
...crashed near Hangchow, killing all the occupants - the greatest loss of life in any U.S. plane any where. A C46 struck a radio tower at Peiping and crashed. There were other casualties when superstitious Chinese walked across the runways in front of whirring propellers, hoping that the blades would chew up the evil spirits which they believed were following them. Some propellers missed the shadows but devoured the substance. But loss of life was amazingly small in proportion to the magnitude of the undertaking. Army airmen again had reason to point to the achievement as the greatest ever...