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Fortnight ago the British Legation in Montevideo issued an unusual decree: no British sailor, naval or mercantile, was to leave his ship without a local Briton as escort. Just as amazing was the official reason: Uruguayan maidens had become so immodestly pro-Allied that the honest British tars were embarrassed;* wherever they went they were greeted with effusive hugs and left covered with smears of sticky lip rouge. As the practice grew fashionable, local belles vied for the honor of kissing the most sailors, depositing the most makeup...
...Gibraltar after two days at sea made no mention of visible damage. Yet, as usual, the Italians claimed to have hit the Ark Royal's bridge with two big bombs, to have set afire the monster Hood. All the British would admit was loss of the destroyer Escort by torpedoing...
...voluntary retirement" ex-Cinemactress Shirley Temple, 11, emerged as guest of honor at the commencement ball of the California Military Academy, danced, as demure as dimity, with her escort, Cadet Raymond Berlinger...
...Nashua, N. H., a milkman making his early morning round passed a cemetery, heard a voice cry from an open grave, "What time is it?" The milkman did not stay to answer. Returning with a police escort, he discovered a drunk, nightfloundered in the grave...
...risky flight to take, for a fleet at sea in wartime would be glad to have its escort planes shoot down any air snooper. But perhaps, flying in the distance, Seidenfaden's plane was taken for one of the escort. He overtook the Nazi vanguard near the Norwegian coast, swooped down in time to see the first units of the Nazi fleet moving into Oslo Fjord...