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...Burbled the Chicago Chamber of Commerce, with a placatory eye on ODT: "If you can't go fishing, go to the Shedd Aquarium and look at the fish. . . . Interested in faraway places? Visit the new foreign exhibits at the Field Museum...
...doorsteps, since March 16, when the Allied drive in Tunisia began, came the unwanted telegrams, with the feared news: killed, wounded, missing in faraway Africa...
...politician who makes them laugh-unless, like New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, the man is obviously an expert caper-cutter. At the same time they suspect any candidate who gestures as if he went to dramatic school, and doubly suspect one handsome enough to inspire a faraway look in their wives' eyes...
...hour for which the 13th had waited. They were tough, soft-spoken men from Omsk and Barnaul in faraway Siberia. They had arrived in Stalingrad by forced marches-125 miles in one two-day trek-and there in the battered factories had taken up their positions. For six weary weeks, under almost ceaseless shelling and air assaults, hacked at by infantry and tanks, the gaunt 13th had held the ditches, the doorways, the alleys and the gutted buildings. On their holding depended the success of Marshal Timoshenko's strategy...
Back up the ramp went the President's automobile. Aboard the King Haakon VII the little crew of freemen prepared for a shakedown cruise down the muddy Potomac River, for the hazardous stalking of U-boats in the North Atlantic, for the faraway hope of riding proudly into home port...