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...four days Mrs. Helen Zuhars Goad MacDowell pondered a question that few women have ever had to decide: which of her two husbands did she want most? Her dilemma stemmed from the fact that the Japanese had held her first husband, Army Air Forces Lieut. Harold Goad, a prisoner without notifying the U.S. He had been listed as missing in action for a year after his bomber exploded over Burma. Last fall, the War Depart ment officially pronounced him dead, and two months later Mrs. Goad was married to Ensign Robert A. MacDowell, U.S.N.R...
...Final Goad. The New York Post's self-styled Saloon Editor Earl Wilson, whose usual preoccupation is with movie stars' brassieres and "derrieres," interrupted Molotov's press conference to ask whether vodka was pronounced "wodka" and whether it could "be consumed . . . without fear of internal injury." This was the final goad to Scripps-Howard's Peter Edson, who promptly exploded in type...
...Sight Raiser. Harry Hopkins was in the President's study, munching an apple, when Franklin Roosevelt got the news of Pearl Harbor. Now the job of being a constant goad on production was added to Hopkins' functions. He listened to the bustling airmen, and agreed without batting an eye that the U.S. could meet their seemingly fantastic wants. It was he who always put the ostrich egg in the hen coop, who always raised the sights over the last highest production estimate. In 1941, shown the estimated merchant-ship construction for the year, he blandly doubled the figure. At year...
Tired, aging Premier Bonomi was not seeking to add to his burdens. A volunteer army, functioning side by side with Italy's regular Army, would undoubtedly be a burden of major proportions. But the Government's demand might goad the unwilling Allies into giving Italy the enhanced military and political status it had been vainly seeking for months. For Premier Bonomi, as for the leftists, the volunteer army was a political weapon...
...goad to action was a new outbreak of rapine and train-wrecking in protest against the jailing of the Hurs' Robin Hood leader, the lecherous, pock-marked Pir of Parago (TIME, June 15). Coordinating land and air forces, the British dropped parachutists on the edge of the Sind desert. From there they moved west toward the Hurs' jungle stronghold in Makhi Dhand, the "honey swamp." A column of camelry moved in from the north. From the east, Punjab constabulary in assault boats drew the trap tighter. A motorized infantry unit completed boxing the jungle...