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...Republic, linked together in their cause and their need, will defend to the death their native soils, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength, even though a large tract of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule...
When Edward Hull Crump was mayor of Memphis 30 years ago, he clinched his grip on Memphis' heartstrings by refusing to enforce State Prohibition. During World War I, when the Army demanded abolition of the red-light district, the trulls quietly packed up and moved their business to shuttered houses on South Main Street, Vance Avenue, Mulberry Street and thereabouts. In the '305-third decade of his reign-Ed Crump continued to let Memphis go its primrose way. Memphis was sinful, all right, but it was never loud and raw about it. Memphis was the kind of town...
Above the Arctic Circle, continuous daylight last week illuminated the last efforts of a haggard, heroic band of Austrian ski troops to hold the one bit of dry land which the Allies have wrested from the Nazi war machine. German airmen tried to strengthen their comrades' failing grip, but massed Allied warships, planes, artillery and foot soldiers on all four sides brought about at last the recapture of snow-clad Narvik, all-but-forgotten Norwegian outlet for Sweden's high-grade iron...
Exactly how the soap works-whether it dissolves the "armor" of the virus, or clutches it in a chemical grip-Drs. Stock & Francis have not yet discovered. Nor are they quite ready to try their mixture as a vaccine on human beings...
Born Marjorie Robertson, Cinemactress Neagle (rhymes with eagle) got a grip on her career as a chorine when a British musical took her to Manhattan. Back in England, Producer-Director Herbert Wilcox signed her up, patiently brought her along, picture by picture, from musicomedy to solemn historical roles. In eight years they made 14 pictures together. Among them: Victoria the Great (which made the Neagle reputation international) ; Sixty Glorious Years (Victorian impersonation No. 2) ; Nurse, Edith Cavell...