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Oversight. On paper it was a fine complex plan. There were only two things against it: one was that Old Stagers Halsey, Mitscher and Kinkaid were comb ing the seas with planes and submarines looking for the attack; another was the overwhelming power of the U.S. force...
Buster. In Brookline, Mass., the late Lawyer Woodbury Rand left $40,000 to his pet alley-cat Buster. To his housekeeper he left Buster's comb, brush, harness and an extra $40,000 to provide for the cat's additional comfort. To nine outraged relatives he left nothing. Reason: ". . . their contemptuous attitude and cruelty...
...trouped with his choir from California to Rome, where he was a great favorite with Pius X. In Milwaukee his playful choir boys stuffed the trombones and tubas, for an accompanied number, full of newspapers. The resulting tone, says Father Finn, "sounded like everybody was playing a fine-toothed comb. I had to ring the curtain down so we could fix things." In Regina, Saskatchewan, Finn found himself without a baton. A gentleman, "a true gentleman," says Finn, "took the rung of his chair and whittled it down so that it would fit between my third and fourth fingers, which...
...Washington, D.C. the Thrift Shop, run by six charity organizations, is besieged by people who want old typewriters, sewing machines, refrigerators and clocks. Government workers, patent attorneys, and Blue Bookers comb through the shop's stock, hoping to strike gold (an electric fan or a flatiron...
Washrooms are full of fuss and flutter, and the babbling confusion of Marines in undress waiting to take showers, crowding around mirrors to put their hair in curlers and massaging their faces with creams. In the grey dawn they comb out the pin curls, feverishly powder noses, paint on lipstick (which matches the Marine red hat-cord) and dash off to breakfast and their duties...