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...base, Mellaha is strategically located for the diplomatic war in the Mediterranean. It is a ramp from which A.T.C. planes, carrying a steadily increasing military traffic, can take off to southern Europe and the Middle East. From desolate Mellaha's three strips, it is 775 miles to Athens, goo miles to the Dardanelles, 1,300 miles to Palestine...
...Halloween: PBH whipped up a special corps of 30 men to fan out into key houses and organize celebrations. At the South Boston Boys' Club alone 1500 kids delighted in the old standbys of sawing girls in half, sipping eider, and calling forth taffy apples from a cauldron of goo. This afternoon is the Rutgers game: another squad of 30 leaders will corral a howling 200 anxious to see football played in the Stadium...
...Goo & Starch. Sedoi's sentimental ballads and starchy marching songs first began to catch on ten years ago. His big break was Nightingale, which won him his first Stalin prize (1944). Now he rates special fees, living and working quarters...
...concluded, fell into well-defined categories: 1) love songs, 2) nonsense songs, 3) jingles, 4) songs built around a silly syllable. Of these syllables, Billy discovered, the double-o sound-"oo"-was the most successful. On this principle, he carefully constructed some sound effects called Barney Google ("with the goo goo googly eyes"). Just as his calculations had indicated, it was a smash hit. Having shortened his name to Rose, Billy lengthened his list of popular song hits and that year made more than...
Boasting a mysterious Tiffany plate in the running board, Appleby's car has a ga-goo-gah type horn that inspires the awe of fellow motorists. "There's no glowering as you go by," he affirms, "only smiles...