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Since Pearl Harbor, 344 Army camps have witnessed the cue work of billiards' No. 1 trick-shot Svengali. Peterson has peregrinated 75,000 miles, given 1,239 exhibitions, walked goo miles around tables making 92,000 fancy shots for his uniformed audiences...
Thus a fissure widened between the men who cannot escape the Party label and those who stand ready to assert that they merely endured it. For the former the cue now was: hang on and hope for a stalemate; for the latter: get this war over with as quickly as possible-and make sure the English-speaking armies march into Berlin first...
Outside the Third Reich, Lili Marleen has gone through various metamorphoses. The British changed it into a sentimental song. The Danes and Norwegians made up verses in which Hitler swung from Marleen's lamppost. Following this cue, the OWI has prepared a version for possible future use in propaganda broadcasts to Germany. Sample stanza...
...thronelike seat on a small dais. Energetically, the orchestra played the national anthem. That over, the roped-off audience fell into a stiff, embarrassed silence. Eleanor Roosevelt tried to loosen things by suggesting "we all sing something together." But that was not on the program; no one knew what cue to take. Before a song could be organized, the First Lady was away...
...real debate, however, was whether affable Edwin Barclay, President for the past 13 years, would leave the Executive Mansion "by the backway drive."* Liberia's new Constitution says the President may not succeed himself. But in times like these, the President's supporters, taking their cue from the great paternal democracy across the Atlantic, were beginning to call able Edwin Barclay indispensable, were talking about Term III and changing the Constitution to make it possible...