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...True, Dear first hit the U.S. last May, thousands of fans bought the platter and listened. Here, for a change, was a girl who really sang, straight out and straight on the beat, instead of cooing mushily and straying away from the band. Last month, her warmly sung Again crept into Variety as a comer on the coin machines. By last week, Vera and Again seemed headed straight for the hit parade...
...night, the smugglers' boats crept into the mangrove-fringed inlets of Florida's Keys, their running lights doused, their engines throttled down to a throaty chuckle. Among the trees a car waited, ready to whisk the refugees northward through Miami. The smugglers' boats are mostly goletas-small, dirty fishing smacks and schooners used in the coconut and banana trade. Often, the goleta will rendezvous with a faster U.S. boat for the run to the Florida coast. Masters of bigger boats prefer to land their cargoes further up the coast, as far north as Norfolk, to elude...
...from Invercargill, led an expedition to look for it. They climbed up into the wilderness close to snowline. At last Dr. Orbell saw what looked like a takahe. Battling his excitement he crouched to take a picture while the other members of the party, two men and a girl, crept cautiously around and threw a net over not one, but two takahes...
Ezra Pound, godfather-emeritus of modern verse, came through in his old age with some of the best-and worst-poetry of the year. In his Pisan Cantos he ranted, as of old, about usurers, Churchill and Mussolini; but a new, touching note of sadness and humility crept into his verse...
...will be the next President of the United States." Deweymen sighed in relief. Everything was all right, after all. A rumor swept the ballroom that Dewey was on his way down for a victory speech before the television cameras. But Dewey did not appear. Doubt crept back. News came that Truman was taking a lead in Ohio and Iowa, was surging up in California. Deweymen hung on, drank large amounts of whiskey with glum, unhappy concentration...