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Part of this volume, the committee found, had indeed come from luxury goods. Example: The Marine PX at Quantico, Va. had refrigerators, $250 cameras, television sets and outboard motors in stock...
...subcommittee found no reason why service stores should be exempt from excise taxes, ordered the stores to start collecting the tax. It also ordered the armed services to: 1) abolish all commissaries by Jan. 1, wherever adequate civilian facilities are available; 2) cut out all special orders; 3) keep luxury items off the shelves. The three services agreed to do so. Estimated loss to the military stores: 50% of their gross business...
Died. Mrs. Mathilde Townsend Welles, 64, second wife of onetime (1937-43) Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles; of peritonitis; in Lausanne, Switzerland, where they were resting after his near escape from death in Maryland last December (he was found half-frozen and unconscious after collapsing while out for a walk...
Strindberg's fears and passions eventually found relief of sorts in the old, familiar sound of the church bells. He came to believe that each of his ordeals was merely a penance on his own road to Damascus. He went home, and became the Grand Old Man of Swedish letters. While he was dying of cancer of the stomach, he wanted to have his children near him. One evening, while his daughter Karin was at his bedside, he picked up the Bible and murmured: "Everything is atoned for." Soon afterwards, he died...
Many commentators on Strindberg have found everything from surrealism to schizophrenia in his life & work. But he was, after all, just a son of the quiet old 19th Century...