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...such bombing. Certainly the real effect on the German war machine will not be felt for several weeks-until German reserves of equipment are depleted and replacements are progressively reduced. But when the process has gone far enough, it will strike like a paralyzing cramp in the muscles of the proud German Wehrmacht...
...July 12 Chief Magistrate F. E. Field, who doubles as coroner, has been taking longhand testimony in his tiny, packed courtroom in Nassau. Nancy has watched him laboriously fill one sheet of foolscap after another, passing them round for witnesses and lawyers to read. When his writer's cramp gets too bad, hearings are limited to two hours a day, and Alfred de Marigny fills in the time in his cell, he has told Nancy, composing poems to the mosquitoes...
...Bear a hand, mates, bear a hand", as Seth Grey would put it. Keep the books abalancin', keep the writers cramp a crampin' with that IM report that's coming up soon, keep the oil a flowin' through TNEC and if you're lucky you may wind up in the third quartile comes the middle of July and mid-semester exams . . . or haven't you even thought of the impending doom lately because of time rationing...
...hired special trunk lines so that their patrons could still call them for a nickel. Last week the Mayor finally got the telephone company to discontinue the lines. The only noticeable result, as noted by cynical New York Mirror Sportswriter Dan Parker: "Bookmakers' clerks . . . [have] writer's cramp from notifying their clients by mail every day what the new telephone number...
...Loop flash red Saturday night, cars often line up for a solid block. At the Sherman Hotel, customers stand eight deep at the long Celtic Bar; downstairs in the Panther Room, where a normal New Year's crowd is 1,100, nearly 2,500 swing-loving youngsters cramp in to hear the solid-sending of Glenn Miller's band...