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Long before last week the Treasury bond campaign had become one of the liveliest phenomena of the American scene. Bonds were sold by tomfoolery, parades, fanfare, gags, spectacles, fol de rol-and everywhere. Breathed no man alive in the 48 States, excepting only (possibly) hermits, night watchmen and astronomers, who was not exposed almost daily to lures, enchantments, traps, and high-pressure selling designed to milk his pocketbook of every possible cent for the war effort. Men might groan and women resist, but on the street, in railroad stations, in shops and stores and factories and offices, in restaurants, cafes...
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...Sandwiches" of 'Messerschmitt fighter-bombers usually came over first between layers of Messerschmitt fighters, to draw off R. A. F.'s fighter strength. Then fol lowed bomber squadrons, trying to slip past secondary defenses to strike at Lon don or to surprise R. A. F. bases, aircraft factories, Army camps. With their blows at military objectives they mingled many a savage shot below the belt, at civilian targets and morale. They experimented with "herringbone" formations, Indian file or chain formations, darting single attacks, converging attacks and their opposite, in which big formations dispersed in all directions...
Forced out of the game on personal fouls, the Yale center, Al Stevens, dropped four baskets for eight points, fol- lowed by Captain Vern Struck and George Lowman of the Crimson with seven tallies apiece...
Since the late Brooks Bowman wrote the nationally successful East of the Sun, Triangle songsmiths have had a hard song to beat. Fol-De-Rol is at least full of very good ones, complete with new-fangled long coda endings. When Your Heart's on Fire, by Dixon Morgan and C. E. Davis, seems particularly tuneful, and the ballet music has real distinction...