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Fiorello LaGuardia, who last year raged at Flying Fortress Pilot Jack W. Watson's stunting over the World Series game at the Yankee Stadium, sent Lieut. Watson an "all is forgiven." Watson had brought his blazing, crippled "Meat-hound" back to England after nine crew members bailed out. Said he of the Mayor's forgiveness: "That's good. As long as he's happy, that's the big thing...
This week the Truman Committee reported to U.S. taxpayers that the man-hours, materials and money already spent on Canol have been an "inexcusable" waste. The committee admitted that the Army might be partially forgiven a mis take during the frenzied months after Pearl Harbor. But what the Committee could not condone, nor ask the U.S. to dismiss lightly, was the stubborn brass-hattery which had refused, time & time again, to correct, or even to admit the original blunder. The Army had been amply warned...
...feminine hands. But he could raise four army muskets by inserting his fingers into the muzzles. In one Austrian battle he defended a bridge so fiercely that thereafter he was called "Horatius Codes of the Tyrol." Said admiring General Thiebault: "He is the only colored man whom I have forgiven his skin...
...about between heaven and the hard floor. Mr. Kelly, though profoundly disconcerted, gets the idea, drops nobody, comes out of a two-and-a-half somersault with his lesson learned and Miss Grayson's heart somewhere between her throat and the palm of his hand. He is promptly forgiven by the court-martial and goes off to war, while Songstress Grayson (plus an orchestra and some 390 male choristers) gives tongue to United Nations, by Russian Composer Dmitri Shostakovich...
Says Bachelor Tutt, in describing the library of his home in Manhattan's old London Terrace: "There have I heard confessions of everything from infidelity to murder; there I have seen husbands and wives reconciled, repentant daughters and sons forgiven, restitutions made after many years...