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...plus four, Pfc. Rizzitello got a series of pleasant surprises. A Fort Dix clerk had figured Rizzitello's discharge credits under the Army's scoring plan announced last week. Infantryman Rizzitello had been in the Army 56 months-that was 56 points; he had been overseas 32 months-that was 32 more; he had 40 points for his battle stars and decorations. He had a total of 128 points and he had won discharge from the service...
...been to give the public-relations assignment to line officers. Most of the professionals hated the job, and few understood it. The high command sat on almost everything but the most routine naval news, and the Navy's chief public-relations officer became little more than a chief clerk...
...prosperity. Painters, buyers and art critics were flourishing as never before (or since) in a happy bond of mutual agreement. On the broad walls of well-to-do Victorian homes hung immense canvases which told stories that were easily understood and appreciated-the capture of a dishonest bank clerk at a crowded railroad station, Derby Day, a bearded doctor's vigil at the bedside of a sick child, a sailor's sweetheart gazing across the ocean. Most of these painted short stories had a helpful moral...
Born in 1771, the son of a farmer, Owen yearned to see the world. At ten, he be came a clerk in McGuffog's drapery shop at Stamford, England. There, lost in thought amid the bolts of cotton, he "began to see sectarianism as the root of evil. He noticed the conjugal bliss of his employers, that although Mrs. McGuffog went to High Church and Mr. McGuffog to Low Church, they drank water from the same well and the water was not poisoned...
Frenchmen grieved and worried. A Parisian flower-vendor propped a black headline, Roosevelt est mort, against his cart of bouquets - "for the death of a savior," he said. A bank clerk cried: "La voix de l'Amérique est diminuée de moitié - America's voice is reduced by half!" Hundreds signed the Embassy register. Hundreds sent cards of regret to Americans whom they had never known. Frenchmen came up to Americans in the streets, shook hands, and said: "We have lost our best friend. . . . What will happen...