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...Senator Ellison DuRant ("Cotton Ed") Smith, all warmed up and ready to go, hit the air with a diatribe on Americans and the War Effort. Blowing like a grampus, garrumphy, irascible Cotton Ed got so interested in his work (denouncing New Deal regimentation) that he skipped a paragraph, turned the page of his script and came upon the middle of an entirely unrelated sentence about gasoline rationing. Twenty interminable, script-shuffling seconds later listeners on 118 stations heard his frustrated bellow...
...Correspondent Albert Leitch handed him a fresh script, straightened him out. Cotton Ed chugged off again. Huffing & puffing through his old-style planter's mustache, old DuRant concluded his oration, turned to Leitch and bawled: "How'd I do?" A flushed engineer threw a switch, took Cotton...
...Aldrich Durant, chief of Harvard's ARP, announced that the alert went off "as well as could be expected," considering the surprise nature of the alarm. All Cambridge personnel cooperated with a minimum of hitches. Since the time of the test raid was unknown, no "incidents" were planned...
...Aldrich Durant, chief of Harvard's ARP, announced that the alert went off "as well as could be expected," considering the surprise nature of the alarm. All Cambridge personnel cooperated with a minimum of hitches. Since the time of the test raid was unknown, no "incidents" were planned. An on-the-minute incident was arranged by the newly reshuffled Cambridge City Fire Department, who drove a truck to Widener steps to guard against incendiaries...
...Aldrich Durant, one of the first men on the spot, was evidently mistaken for legitimate game by the fire-fighters and was doused in the spray...