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...TIME, as usual, was curt, concise, and entirely too accurate...
...British War Office was taking no chances last week. As thousands of sightseers milled about the Mall and the Horse Guards Parade for the first postwar full-dress Trooping the Color in honor of the King's official birthday,* the War Office called off the show. A curt official announcement blamed the weather. But the crowds stared suspiciously at the bright sun. What was up? Rumors whipped round that King George was flat on his back, .that Queen Mary was dead, that Princess Elizabeth had had a miscarriage, or that somebody had planted a bomb...
Occasionally he would get up, shuffle to the registration desk, ask the name and salary of some student he had seen scrubbing floors or waiting on tables. Then, with a curt "thank you," he would go back to his chair, or set off for his daily stroll. Old Smith was never known to buy any clothes and he always ate at the union cafeteria (the cheapest place on campus...
...explanatory telegram received by the CRIMSON last night disclosed that the retiring editor wrote his column "on application of the Kinsey Report to College." Two curt phrases told the rest of the story...
...State Department, this was like twisting a dagger in an old wound. But George Marshall muffled his feelings and dispatched a curt reply to Styles Bridges: "[A China] proposal has been worked out by the Department and it will be submitted to the National Advisory Council and the Bureau of the Budget within the week. Upon the completion of their examinations, the President will be in a position to submit the program to the Congress...