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Again the same tough routine. Hurl a few score bombs, dive into a whirling Richthofen Circus with 30 Jap Zeros. Home again, grab yourself a plateful of chow. Flop in your bed at ten. And here is the boy again calling you at a quarter to two in the morning...
After the Lowlands invasion, Louie Macy returned to Manhattan, soon quit Harper's Bazaar to start a swank whole sale dress shop. Her first spring style show was a flat flop. She tried again with a fall & winter collection. This flopped, too, and she turned to being a nurse's aide. She was the model for a recruiting poster prepared by the Office of Civilian Defense...
Pondering reasons for the drive's widespread flop. Ickes snapped: "We suspect that people are hoarding rubber and maybe even people in official life are hoarding." His companion. Bill Boyd of the Petroleum Industry War Council, shook his head, too: "If there had been heavier hitting on the part of the public...
Thin, stooped, flop-eared Howard Worth Smith sits in big, comfortable chairs, and nobody puts even a small tack in them. Nobody could. As president of the Alexandria (Va.) National Bank, as owner of a money-making Virginia dairy farm, as organized labor's hair shirt in Congress, the 59-year-old Alexandrian serves what Virginians call The Organization -the "courthouse crowd" machine of Senator Harry F. Byrd...
Conant's scheme smacked of World War I's S.A.T.C. (Students' Army Training Corps), a flop that cost some $160 millions. But Conant argues that S.A.T.C. had too short a trial. The president of Harvard's plan would certainly be expensive, and it would more or less convert all colleges into West Points and Annapolises. But, says Conant, it would also restore "an essential element in our democracy-the birthright of opportunity which in an earlier age was the gift of the American frontier...