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...Lisbon black market. Smuggled, uncensored copies of U.S. newspapers and magazines find their way to neutral Portugal in the hands of seamen or of Clipper passengers. There they bring fancy prices. The buyers: Axis agents who want the latest dope on U.S. strikes, race riots, political discords, and who flock to Lisbon's airports and wharves every time a plane or ship comes in. Single, uncensored copies of the New York Times have sold for as high as $60. One copy of LIFE brought...
...continued with the fleet. A few destroyers lagged to pick up survivors from the Roma. Admiral Bagliria was not among them. The main body of the fleet sailed on. At 8:35 a.m. next day, off Cap Bon, the Italia, the Vittorio Veneto and their lesser flock sighted H.M.S. Warspite, waiting with a British squadron...
Died. The Rev. Ernest Lynn Waldorf, 67, since 1932 Resident Bishop of the Methodist Church's Chicago Area, where he guided a flock of 1,000,000; of a liver ailment; in Alexandria...
...Washington likes to blame it on the visitors . . . but it is strange that those who flock to Washington just happen to be people of extraordinary alcoholic capacity and desire...
...Columbia is proud of the fact that, apart from this decline in numbers, Teachers College and cultural opportunities are unimpaired. The campus north of ferryboat-like University Hall echoes with Kansas and Texas accents. Like a quarter million or so predecessors, the studying teachers flock to the Grove before and after classes. On rustic benches around trees named for the States, they foregather to 1) exchange impressions of the advanced intellectual life, 2) make dates to be snapshot in front of Alma Mater's gilt statue, 3) talk about exotic eating possibilities downtown, 4) plan tours of the city...