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Grumpy, Eh? In Chicago, Shirley Hudson sued for divorce, claimed her eight-day, gag-loving husband had 1) tied her ankles together, 2) hoisted her to the ceiling, 3) accused her of lacking a sense of humor...
Every 15 'minutes a plane operated by the Army's indefatigable Air Transport Command lumbers free of the earth and begins a trans-Pacific flight. In one recent eight-day period these planes hauled 18.4 million lbs. of cargo over A.T.C.'s 42,000-mile Pacific airways. Passenger and cargo volume is three times that of a year...
With breathless enthusiasm, the newscasters announced that the eight-day meeting of the Big Three in the 100-room Crimean castle of Livadia had ended. (They had a clean beat, for many an afternoon newspaper had suspended publication because of the holiday...
...Argentina's press was cringing before the Farrell regime. The great La Prensa was in a meek mood after its five-day suspension (TIME, May 8). La Nation, the No. 2 paper, last week averted a threatened eight-day suspension by apologizing for a mildly critical article and firing its author...
...Whetham commanded destroyers through World War I, in 1939 retired. Five weeks later he rejoined the Service, during the next three years took some 30 convoys safely through the seven seas, was in charge of a famed, fanatically assaulted Archangel convoy in the fall of 1942. Once during the eight-day air attack one of his escorting destroyers picked off a crippled German plane. Boddam-Whetham flashed a message: "Thought it not done to shoot a sitting bird...