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France seethed with indignation. The Laval-Pétain duet was conking out. Its collaborationists' burbling was drowned by the rattle of machine guns outside hostage camps. Laval fired arch-collaborationist Jacques Benoist-Mechin from his job as Secretary of State, on the ground that Naziphile Benoist-Méchin had conspired against him. In the next breath Laval told newspapermen that his "Government was based on "solid foundations," remarked that rumors of its fall were "laughable...
...which has the only bath and running-water toilets in town. Average Saturday night consumption of 50?-a-bottle beer is 3,500 bottles. At the Inn in Whitehorse the jampacked soldiers sometimes push the 11 o'clock curfew up to 2 a.m., ending with a mouth-organ duet and fine, boozy soldier harmony. Checks are cashed at the only bank for 460 miles around-the same one in which Poetaster Robert Service clerked in the gold-rush days...
...Franklin Roosevelt last week assured themselves of a rather fabulous place in history. Having conferred in Washington, they revealed their thoughts to their peoples, and all was optimism, the glowing promise of a second front, the growing power of the United Nations. But the musical accompaniment of their duet was a bombardment of bad news, some of the worst news since the fall of France. In historical retrospect their third war meeting was now destined to make them out either a pair of zanies who did not know what time of day it was, or a pair of courageous statesmen...
...night when an Italian voice from Moscow butted in, so rattled the announcer that he quit, after one three-minute round. Rome then made the mistake of shifting to Venice for a performance of the opera Andrea Chénier. When the opera began, every solo became a duet, every duet a trio, until Italian radiomen finally...
...fast-moving first line, centered by Tommy Ayres, brother of three-letterman Burgy Ayres, has been a leading factor in the Yardling streak. Flanking Ayres, Stan Collinson and Jim Apthorp on the wings have developed into a hardworking duet which looks better with every fracas...