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Objective. In Lincolnshire, England, the Chronicle ran the following advertisement : "Owner of tractor wishes to correspond with widow who owns a modern Foster, thrasher; object matrimony; send photograph of machine." Hooping Cough. In Kingston, R.I.,the Rhode Island State basketball team prepared for its game in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, where smoking is permitted, by practicing with smudge pots of stale tobacco on the sidelines...
...Through the lines on Friday came an enemy envoy carrying a white sheet. He delivered an ultimatum: two hours to decide upon surrender. The alternative: "annihilation by artillery." The German commander appended a touching appeal to U.S. instincts: "The serious civilian losses caused by this artillery fire would not correspond with the well-known American humanity...
June. A Dixon, Calif, newspaper ran a want ad: "Owner of a truck would like to correspond with a widow who owns two tires. Object matrimony. Send picture of tires." July. In Denver, Mrs. Martha Martin got a black eye when a stranger walked up and hit her. Said the stranger, apologetically : "I thought you were my mother...
Chang emphasized the importance of the rising local governments in the Hsien, which correspond to our countries. "The development of local government has been remarkably rapid during the war," he asserted. "Appreciable progress has been made also in mass education and agricultural and industrial cooperatives, and all this development of local self- government may well be considered the most significant reform carried out by the Chinese Government in recent years...
...York Herald Tribune Correspondent John Chabot Smith made the serious charge that on two successive days official announcements of Fifth Army progress failed to jibe with the operational maps. Headquarters lamely explained that patrols had reached forward points, then came back. Even the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes dared to raise the question with the headline: "Is or Isn't the Gothic Line Cracked?" Wrote Correspond ent Sergeant Jack Foisie...