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Last week Sergeant Desmond-variously known as the "G.I. Sinatra" and "The Creamer," because of his smooth, creamy baritone-was getting fan mail in three languages: English, German and French. Restrained sample from a French admirer: "C'est formidable. . . . It is an experience very moving. I pray you to permit my felicitations...
...world's featherweight champion, Willie Pep. A master boxer with a featherweight punch, he had been dubbed "BackPedaling Bill" by the fans. But in last week's 15-round championship battle with Bronx Phil Terranova, Hartford's nimble 124-lb. Willie put on the fighting-est show of his career...
Author Maurras himself had predicted: "L'Académie est trop grande dame pour m'exclure-The Academy is too great a lady to expel me." Maurras was right. The 20 Academicians put their heads together. Immortal Maurras, they reasoned, had lost his "national dignity." Therefore, his colleagues gravely decided, they did not need to expel him: his seat was already vacant. Then, with greater haste than they had ever shown, the 20 Immortals turned back to the pressing problems of the word...
...crying bitterly. She wore a thin red cotton sweater with a thin cotton dress underneath and the Belgian approximation of bobby socks in scuffed shoes. Her mother, wearying under a heavy bundle, spoke sullenly and bitterly when we asked what was wrong. 'Elle a froid. C'est tout. Elle a froid.' ('She's cold. That's all. She's cold...
Mused Dr. Caldwell: "I wonder if the presence of repellent charges on flakes is responsible for the curious way they swirl down sometimes, always keeping clear of each other. Could be, n'est...