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...victimized by the fellow-traveling elements of the Roosevelt regime. I, a Democrat, should like to register my opinions . . . Private Schine was, at the time of his induction, just within the 26-year-old limit, and the kind of controversial public figure the Army does not like to han dle. Did his draft number just pop up, accidental-like? Or, as his friends accuse and enemies smirk, as everyone believes, was it drawn? Why wasn't he given a special com mission and/or a special job? Photographers, pharmacists, private detectives et al. get special jobs...
...Exploit the Mid dle East...
...Japanese destroyers, the deep submersion, and the suspense at 300 feet below while depth charges searched for the sub, shaking her like a light bulb on a cord. The first time it happened to Trigger, Tokyo Rose claimed her sunk, then played a recording of Rocked in the Cra dle of the Deep. It was a characteristic Japanese extravagance: they claimed 468 subs in the course of the war. U.S. sub losses in the Pacific from all causes were 52 ships...
...spite of the best efforts of Razmara and the Shah,* Iran's economy began sliding downhill. As unemployment grew, Iranians tended to blame the whole mud dle on British imperialism. Tudeh party leaders and Mohammedan fanatics of the National Front joined in spreading the be lief that nationalization of oil would end Iran's troubles...
Beadles & Magnificence. Despite everything, it was a rather wonderful show. Visitors could forgive a dozen stilted scenes of the chase for a curio such as Tregonwell Frampton Arrested by a Bea dle, or The Ancient Ceremony of Cheese-rolling; and could pass pleasant minutes in contemplation of George Stubbs's beautifully painted study of Gimcrack (see cut), a magnificent grey horse of the 1760s, or of Marshall's John ("Gentle man") Jackson, a straight, first-rate study of the prime pugilist of the Regency...