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...heat. Dickins & Jones's big store was almost empty. It had one dissatisfied customer, who tried hard in the dark to distinguish between silk and linen materials. She muttered: "Drat this! I thought we'd finished with blackouts." In Fortnum & Mason's flower department a girl clerk said crossly: "I wish people wouldn't be so goodhearted about it all ... then maybe something could be done...
...Story is so far unverifiable. The Central Refugee Camp Administration does not know. Story is traceable to frontier station Tinglev, where its originator, local newspaper tipster, a railway clerk, says he got it from colleague who heard it Monday from still unidentified Danish policeman on refugee train who in turn was reporting narrative of another policeman who said Father Germania was on his train crossing the frontier fortnight...
...more. He hurried to Washington, pleaded not guilty, and declared himself confident of vindication. But 71-year-old Andy May was a changed man. Required to post a $2,000 bond, the man who used to keep generals jumping asked the clerk humbly: "My heart is hurting me-can I sign something and go to my hotel...
TIME WOMAN OF YEAR IDENTIFIED YESTERDAY . . . MRS. CORA D. O'CONNOR, ABOUT 42 . . . CLERK Y.W.C.A., MOTHER OF THREE, INCLUDING LOIS ANN, A CHAMPIONSHIP SPEED SKATER...
...Methodists like sermons; they like them biblical and they like them preached, not read. Wrote an Oklahoma county clerk: "Most preachers . . . that I listen to talk too much about what they have done, or make too many personal references, follow notes too closely, giving the Average thinking layman the impression of not enough time spent praying over the message to be delivered to hungry people...