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Finally a non-com had a look at them and came away with his heart brimming over with good will. "They were telling us," he said, "that you must learn to distinguish between National Socialism and Hitlerism. They say that National Socialism is a good thing, especially for Germany, but that to their regret as well as to anyone's, Hitlerism has perverted...
Patently, for an undertaking of such proportions, the Navy would have gathered a fleet bigger than any naval force yet assembled in the Pacific. The man in com mand was the man who, under Admiral Chester Nimitz, bosses the Fifth Fleet, the man who ran off the great amphibious attacks on the Gilberts and the Marshalls-the cold, calculating, mechanical man named Raymond Ames Spruance...
Terrible Pool of Blood. The long sea voyage was a horror. Much of the time it stormed. Once Severn, who was himself ill (he had had typhus and a liver com plaint), came upon Keats during a hemorrhage and stumbled away to the stern of the ship, because the sight of so much suffering was unbearable. "He heard again that ghostly cough ; he saw again the poor white face, the terrible pool of blood." In Rome poet and painter had rooms in the Piazza, di Spagna, before a magnificent flight of steps that led upwards to the twin-towered Church...
...leaned toward isolationism. Now they lean toward the hope that the war will be over soon and Wrigley's can go back to the dear dead days again. As president, and per force responsible to them, Phil had to fight every step of the way to take the com pany about as far into the war as a gum company can go. Wrigley's packages more than half of the Army's K rations at a slight loss ; makes preferential sales to the Services and to essential industries, regardless of long-standing trade relation ships...
Biting Comment. In Indianapolis, Ho tel Clerk Dewey F. Campbell filed a suit for $50,000 against Roger Ferguson and the Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., charged that Ferguson, an agent of the oil com pany, on being informed that there were no rooms available, had bitten the end of Dewey Campbell's nose...