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...Slick Chick. In Lexington, Mo., a hen, bought for the pot, worked furiously for a reprieve, produced eight eggs in nine days, six of them double-yolkers...
...Communists and proCommunists, that he carried a collaborationist taint from serving in a Jap puppet government. With him he brought the testimonial of General Douglas MacArthur, who said "consistently anti-Japanese . . . during . . . Bataan and Corregidor. . . . One of my most trusted and devoted officers." Then U.S. Navy Commander Charles ("Chick") Parsons gave conclusive evidence of Roxas' loyalty. He told of submarine trips he had made to contact Roxas during the Japanese occupation and to appoint him ringleader of U.S. espionage...
Britain, like a mother hen clucking at her dearest chick, kept calling Canada. South Africa's Jan Christian Smuts was already in London, for a conference of Empire Prime Ministers on defense and trade. So were representatives of Australia and New Zealand. The New York Times reported, from London, that Prime Minister Mackenzie King would not arrive "until next week." Others predicted that he would soon "fly to London...
...what about Element 96? Had the ruler of Hades no chick nor child? Pluto had kidnapped Persephone, and since Greek gods usually kidnapped because their hearts were in it, and goddesses were seldom barren, there might well have been a by-blow. Element 96. he reasoned, might be called "bastardium...
Editorial writers promptly dropped all editorials, the gripe column. General Richardson hurriedly explained that he "was willing" to let them gripe, he just did not want them to call names. Said Editor (Master Sergeant) Chick Avedon: "That's different...