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...management of postwar Germany had received much attention. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden flew through heavy weather to bring a brief case full of British proposals. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau rushed to Quebec, presumably to discuss monetary and economic problems of occupied Europe. And Winston Churchill had with him a close chum, Lord Cherwell, whose genius for reducing difficult problems to clear charts and graphs has recently been applied to matters of currency and trade...
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Basic Invasion. In Normandy, Canadian Lieut. Charlie Hudson encountered a French boy, said "Bon jour." Replied the French boy: "Got any gum, chum...
Umbriago, whom Durante calls "that lifelong chum," is partly a creation of Jimmy's far-fetching imagination and partly a figment of Italian folklore. The folklore Umbriago is a friendly, lusty, happy little man who is always the life of the party, and Jimmy is sure he knows what he looks like (see cover). But in Jimmy's comedy, Umbriago may assume many shapes-clarinetist, bank president, farmer-according to whatever mischief Durante is up to. Umbriago is also at war. One U.S. Army paratroop division has abandoned the classic paratrooper cry Geronimo! in favor of Umbriago...
...wreck; try to learn exactly how many people were killed, and how many injured; get their names and addresses and be sure to get the spelling straight; and call back every half hour or so. Hudson said sure, and off he went, in a flivver commandeered from a chum...