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...Papandreou State" (the four square miles in the heart of Athens controlled by the Government, with British help), civilians were allowed out only for two hours a day to fetch food and water. Snipers' bullets and bursting shells made it hazardous to venture outdoors. U.S. Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh and his staff evacuated the perilously placed Embassy in Queen Sophia Boulevard, moved into the American School of Classical Studies on the much safer slopes of Lycabettus. Food was scarce, even in ELAS areas where merchants' stocks were commandeered and distributed...
...hope it lasts." When 28-year-old Van Johnson steps out to fetch his milk off the doorstep these morings, he runs the chance of finding, as well, some disarming child in bobby socks who has traveled all the way from Idaho or Missouri or Maine just for the meeting. When he goes to take part in radio shows, he is well-hedged by policemen; they are necessary because young people mob him for any souvenir they can lay hands on. Johson's mail, at present, tallies some 8,000 letters a week-the highest mail count...
...that little Scotty dog, had been inadvertently left behind at the Aleutians on the [President's] return trip, and that they did not discover the absence of the little doggie until the party reached Seattle, and that it is rumored a destroyer was sent a thousand miles to fetch...
...Fetch that gin son and I'll spill payoff...
...people of Allegheny County came to fetch him, neat in his freshly laundered uniform. There followed for handsome, reticent Mitch Paige three sweltering days of parades, gifts, testimonials, speeches. High moment came when the cars halted in. the small town of Versailles. Spying a grocery store, Mitch Paige excused himself, hopped out. Said he: "I just want to smell a grocery store again...