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...Last week the baffled research staff performed a thorough autopsy on the sullen bar, came up from its powdered remains still baffled but with a lathery explanation: "Floating soap floats because it has been whipped about like a cake batter. In storage, this particular bar might have been com pressed and its tiny air pockets crushed...
...veterans the Continental was least uprooted. As a soldier he had usually gone home for spring plowing, harvesting and emergencies. But when X-day dawned the veteran found himself in straits common to millions of veterans throughout history. Wrote one of them: "I com down by the markett and sits down all alone allmost Descureged and begun to think over how I had ben in the army, what ill success I had met with there . . . and now that I could not get into any besness . . . you may well think how I felt." Like most of his fellows he began...
Died. John Archer Gee, 50, vast and vigorous Yale professor of English com position; after long illness; in New Haven. A masterful lecturer on the comma (or any other article of punctuation), an in trepid Maine Coast power boatman, he was perhaps the greatest tennis player of his weight (well beyond 200 lbs.) in the U.S. He observed: "I have to hit them hard. If they come back, I can't get to them." His advice to the young: "Not many of us can be Davy Crocketts, but some, perchance, may hope to fill the niche of Millard Fillmore...
...Mills has a sizable twilight league started and is looking for more competitors. Ken, in case you haven't already become acquainted, was the only other non-com on the base beside Mrs. Boni when you arrived here a couple of weeks...
...World War I he rose to lieutenant colonel and won the D.S.C. World War II brought him rapid promotion and com mand of a division in France. The Germans chased him out at Dunkirk. After the escape of the B.E.F., Monty was as signed to a defense command. Fate tapped him for glory in Africa as a second-choice man, after another general, William...