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...R.A.F. raid over Berlin last week; only two came back. "Missing in action": 1) slim, 23-year-old Lowell Bennett of the International News Service, who was to write an eyewitness account of the raid for all three U.S. press associations, and who got the assignment by flipping a coin with a colleague; 2) New Zealander Norman Stockton, representing an Australian newspaper service, 3) a British correspondent whose identity was temporarily withheld...
...Coin of Victory? The Financial News discussed comparative British and American sacrifices and expenditures during the war, and reached the terse conclusion: "The only coin in which America can expect to be repaid for Lend-Lease is victory...
Suffering from one of the worst creative slumps in years, Broadway is enjoying one of the greatest box-office booms in history. Packing the theaters are coin-heavy, gas-rationed Manhattan escapists, droves of visiting defense workers hell-bent to spend their mill-gotten gains. The critics, bidding the waves of hogwash recede, are often in a class with Canute. In the past month most critics have trounced Frederick Lonsdale's Another Love Story, Lou Walters' Artists and Models, Gypsy Rose Lee's The Naked Genius (which even the author held her nose at), Rose Franken...
...John Gobeille got back from his 10-day pneumonia leave Tuesday looking well rested. He has been moved back to company Charlie . . . In conclusion it might be remarked that it seems almost unbelievable that company Baker has finally become company Baker. It seems like only yesterday (to coin a phrase) that we lined up full of awe and confusion at 17 Quincy Street and wondered and wondered and wondered. Well, we're still wondering...
...eleventh quarterly report on Lend-Lease went to Congress along with a letter over the President's name which bluntly stated that the U.S. did not want repayment of Lend-Lease debts from the United Nations. The quote: "Victory and a secure peace are the only coin in which we can be repaid." Promptly many a U.S. citizen felt acute tax pains, many a U.S. newspaper bellowed loud (TIME, Sept...