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...leave it alone; but Florida boosters would have considered themselves betrayed if he did no fishing. Flanked by his chief of staff, Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy (who likes to fish), he set out in a crash boat to wet a line. His catch: a 5-lb. barracuda, a grouper and a mackerel...
Many an Ally, remembering Darlanism in North Africa, was anxious over AMGOT. Some Britons were displeased with the choice of Major General Lord Rennell of Rodd as the real civil administrator of Sicily under General Alexander. A veteran diplomat, a banker and an Oxford Grouper Lord Rennell had been a friend of Italian big business, which backed Fascism. Said the New Statesman and Nation: "That he knows the country intimately may be conceded, but . . . will it be easy for groups which might organize a popular mass movement . . . to deal with...
...fleet of power-driven fishing boats, is only 60 miles' shipping distance from Palm Beach. General Foods will start operations with 300 native workers in the plant, 1,000 more as supply fishermen. Main catch will be rock lobster (crawfish); later the company will go after pompano, grouper, snapper, other tasty tropical fish. If all goes well, the plant may be expanded, more natives put to work...
...total of 123 weeks and ?162 for defeatist chatter, most of it harmless. Harry Blessingdon, a young engineer who had built an airport, was caught telling a Church of England canon about it in a hotel lobby. Sentence: three months, ?60. William Henry Garbett, a Birmingham clerk and Oxford Grouper, said over lunch: "It will be a good job when the British Empire is finished." Sentence: one year. A Leicester schoolteacher, Kathleen Mary Bursnall, got two months, ?20, for saying to soldiers: "You are bloody fools to wear that uniform." Others were punished for joking about how the swastika would...
Four thousand sympathetic, plushy, perspiring people filled the hall, but did not overflow it. They heard and applauded MRA messages from bigwigs, MRA testimonials from Groupers. They gave their greatest applause to Grouper "Bunny'' Austin, British tennis star, and accepted calmly enough the one message which made headlines. For the meeting, Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote: "A program of Moral Re-Armament cannot fail . . . to lessen the danger of armed conflict. Such Moral Re-Armament, to be most highly effective, must receive support on a world-wide basis...