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...Filipino leaders, important as they are, whose impending fate disturbed the U.S. It was the Filipino people. Will they hold out against the brutalities-or, more likely, the blandishments-of their Japanese conquerors? That was a question which could not be answered off the cuff...
Pierre Laval, once chubbily greasy but now haggard, showed reporters a dented cuff link he said had deflected his would-be assassin's bullet last August. Meantime guards arrested a prowler with a knife on Laval's estate near Vichy...
...checking up, he perhaps made some notes on his cuff as he went along: noted how the wind seeped through the flimsy walls of the Eastbound Inn at the Newfoundland base as the ferry crews waited for the weather to lift. He would need no notes to remember the radio jam as the squadron approached Britain, and plane after plane called for bearings from ground stations...
Another well-deserved promotion came to William L. Batt, 46, who was Biggers' deputy production director, is now OPM's Materials Director. Batt, a hefty, blunt man with a red face and short pug nose, a powerful off-the-cuff orator, has been booming his head off trying to arouse industry, will now team with Harrison to supply the materials, cut them up into guns, tanks, planes...
This week Lord Beaverbrook, conferring furiously, worked through the days and into the nights, made the rounds of the multiple defense agencies, getting up production steam, stating first needs first. Only one thing he did not attempt to buy on the cuff. He sent his gentleman's gentleman, "Knockles," to buy him three $10 shirts, two $2.50 ties, and several pairs of socks. "Knockles" paid $46.42-in cash...