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...might bear some forwarding address. My ears pricked as I read the contents of the paper. Remembering that in Mexico, the letter "j" is pronounced "h," and that "i" is pronounced as a long "e," and that many words we would begin with "s" are in Spanish begun with "es," the professor's paper becomes understandable and genial...
...Goebbels has banned Germany's biggest recent song hit, Es Geht Alles Vorüber (It'll All Be Over Some Day). Citizens made up new lyrics in which they comforted themselves that what would be over some day was Hitler and his Party...
...Abilene, Kans. This week he was in command of a hatful of crack U.S. generals, at least one admiral and all the expedition's allied ground, sea and air units. Under his shrewd, blue eyes was a country bristling with such names as Tizi-Ouzou, Bougie and Ksar es-Souk, steeped in an ancient, bloody history written around such figures as Hannibal and Hamilcar...
...oppressive; only the darkened room is bearable." Before his eyes swam Beatonesque visions: "Prince Mohammed Ali, heir to the throne and cousin of King Farouk I ... in his tarboosh, morning coat and sponge-bag trousers, with an enormous emerald on one finger." . . . Madam Fouad El Manasterly at soirées in her garden overlooking the Nile. "The glitter of the Turkish standard candelabra and the white-draped musicians in the boats below the window create a romantic effect. They say that Moses was hidden in the bulrushes here...
Then, a few moments before noon, something happened. At third-floor level, a plane roared defiantly up the Champs-Elysées. Before the Arc de Triomphe it zoomed, then dipped in salute to the Unknown Soldier, dropped a huge, weighted tricolor. Circling, the plane thundered back down the Champs-Elysées. At the Place de la Concorde it swerved toward the Rue Royale and sent shell after cannon shell smashing into German military headquarters (once the French Ministry of Marine). The plane vanished to the northwest, followed only by a few feeble tracer bullets...