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...them at Barcelona, but that after 18 months of playing at war, they are about to be subjected to the fiercest offensive El Caudillo Franco, his Italian, Moorish and German allies can muster. United Press Correspondent Irving Pflaum, visiting the Aragon front last week, got this amazing dispatch past Catalan censors...
...four days, then spent three on the conducted tour. London's Laborite Daily Herald insisted the French correspondents were "duped" when they saw no Italian garrison, the Herald's Paris office continuing to see a garrison of 30,000. Mr. Axelsson in an uncensored dispatch to the Times agreed with the French correspondents that there is no Italian garrison but an Italian and German aviation personnel of 500 and some 100 planes. "Majorca still is in the hands of the Spanish-but the Italians and the Germans are guests of honor," cabled he, adding that among the Italian...
...Enough, Mo., the town post office was discontinued. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch promptly editorialized deploring the loss, hoping post offices in Missouri would not be discontinued at Huzzah, Ink, Useful, Novelty, Peculiar, Wisdom, Ponder, Aid, Braggadocio...
According to a dispatch received from Paul "Vermont" Tector '40, of Princeton, who saw Time magazine's reprint of the story on the Harvard Union ice-cream eating record, the title of David "Kentucky" Mitchell '41, as ice-cream champion of the Ivy circuit is contested. For Mitchell, who ate 18 dishes after a full meal and ran a cross country race the next day, yesterday received the following telegram...
Death, as it must to all Hemingway stories, has not yet come to finish Ernest Hemingway's. At 39, in life's prime, he has chosen to be in the midst of death. Madrid, whence last fortnight he cabled a first dispatch to the N. Y. Times, was what he described as quiet; but a shell hit the hotel where he was shaving one morning. Whether his remaining chapters are to reach a further climax, are to be torn off unfinished or peter out in a dull decline, time alone can tell. But no matter what...