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From Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, exiled Raja of Jap-invaded Sarawak, the Ranee got a letter, from Australia. Excerpt: "I limit myself to one drink a day. I have it with two pals who are also dead broke owing to the Japs. We have all our meals in a hamburger shop around the corner. We get a hamburger, bread and butter...
...following is an excerpt from a letter written on Feb. 14 during the heroic defense of Bataan Peninsula by Lieut. Colonel James E. Macklin, U.S. Quartermaster Corps, to his wife in San Francisco. She followed the instruction given in the last sentence...
Mills rushed So We'll Knock into print. In Manhattan it published another song composed that Sunday afternoon: You're a Sap, Mr. Jap, by James Cavanaugh, John Redmond and Nat Simon. Excerpt: Uncle Sam is gonna spanky. Wait and see, before we're done The A. B. C. and D. will sink your rising...
...fame of the retiring Master of Leverett will not be as short-lived as his tenure. One of the most successful traditions fostered by Professor Murdock was the annual Christmas reading, which Professor Hoadley intends to perpetuate. The evening was invariably begun with an excerpt from the Gospel according to St. Luke, but before long "Ken" launched into long quotations from Dorothy Parker and Bob Benchley, whose works, along with those of P.G. Wodehouse, lined his library shelves...
...post, last week there screamed forth from Moscow a character billed as "Ivan the Terrible," who gave in German an amazing imitation of Adolf Hitler. Der Führer has not yet made his annual speech for the Winter Help drive, so Ivan the Terrible made one for him. Excerpt: "So long as I am Germany's Leader, I will lead you from victory to victory to the final catastrophe. I will lead this war to the last German...