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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barkley had another idea. As the noise waned, he roared: "Will the galleries remember they are our guests here and conduct themselves accordingly?" Galleryites, still quiet as mice, looked wonderingly at each other and went home en masse...
...Germans adopted new technique: sending a swift, lone leader at high altitude to lay a smoke trail to the objective, which the bombers followed at out-of-sight altitude. This technique was doubtless devised primarily for the benefit of new, sketchily trained German pilots who are sent out en masse with only rudimentary flight instruments simply to follow-their-leader, get home as best they can after unloading over assigned targets...
...onetime Belgian Premier Paul van Zeeland. Accompanied by members of the Bourbon-Parma family, onetime Empress Zita of Austria and her son Archduke Otto, pretender to the nonexistent Austrian throne, and five of his brothers & sisters arrived the next night. Already in jampacked Lisbon was Belgian Premier Hubert Pierlot. En route was onetime French Premier and Defense Minister Edouard Daladier. Also on the way was onetime Austrian millionaire Baron Eugen Rothschild and his American wife, the former Catherine Wolff of Philadelphia...
STREAMLINED MURDER - Sue MocVeigh - Houghton Mifflin ($2). A poisoning on the Shooting Star's trial run -Manhattan to Chicago in 14 hours. The engineer perishes from sodium arsenite before he ever pulls the throttle. En route some passengers swallow the same stuff: one dies. Denouement: a tribute to Diesel electric engines...
...Nazi agents in the U. S., as well as elsewhere in the Americas, including plenty of boring from within in Mexico. Awaiting further instructions from Berlin, Dietrich and his staff of 30 Nazis hoped to set up headquarters in another Latin-American country, perhaps Guatemala, where 34 additional agents en route to the Americas on the Japanese steamer Asama Mam might join them...