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...Harz Mountains, the Grunewald near Berlin, woods in Thuringia, ranged bombers heavy with incendiaries. The crews could not be certain of exact objectives, but peppered certain marked areas with "nice little patches of fire." At least one crew knew it was near an objective, for Germans paid it the compliment of aiming Archies at its plane. Said the pilot: "You wouldn't normally expect a lot of guns to be cracking off at you from the middle of a forest...
...Boston last week the toastmaster of the 99th Annual Unitarian Festival Dinner rose to introduce an honored guest. "There are two things one should see on a trip West," he declared, "the Grand Canyon and Dr. Reinhardt." That was not the only compliment paid to Dr. Aurelia Henry Reinhardt in Boston last week. She was also elected Moderator at the General Conference of U. S. Unitarians, to succeed famed Penologist Sanford Bates. At 63, tall, big-boned, deep-voiced, Dr. Reinhardt thus became the first woman moderator of a large U. S. church...
...husband, was a sympathetic, adored but firm mother. "I love you, my children," she declared, "but I do not love your faults." Her children were passionate rivals for her affection and approval. Discouraging emotionalism, she told them she would rather hold a brick than a hand. Her maternal compliment on personal appearance was high praise: "Thee will pass in a crowd...
...Finest Compliment...
...have just read the finest compliment to the Press I have seen in many a year. I found it in TIME, March 4, where Earl Long is reported to have said, two days after his recent defeat: "I don't owe the newspapers a ------- thing...