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Navy headquarters stopped chuckling long enough to release the story last week. The corvette Mayflower, called "Daisy Mae"* by her men, left Halifax early in the war to herd 75 cargo ships across the Atlantic. Her only weapons: eight depth charges, six rifles, one Tommy gun, one Lewis gun, three revolvers. But the "Daisy Mae" also had plenty of nerve...
...Abram said unto Lot, "Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herd-men; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left...
Heroic Ugliness. Horn-rimmed Auctioneer Harry Loree moved from bedroom to bedroom, followed by a herd of bidders. In each room he mounted a chair, addressed his audience in machine-gun auctionese: "I have eight dollars bid for the pier-mirror eight dollars eight dollars eight dollars SOLD to what's the name please?" Prices were middling: $25 for most of the marble-topped dressers, $3 to $50 for figured carpets, $20 apiece for twin brass beds. One of the 888-ft. long red Axminster carpets from a hallway brought $1, 600. For the two florid front-lawn urns...
...conscripted labor was French but much more was German, Italian and Russian. In one town, Bayeux, the German commandant managed to avoid sending the full quota of young men away to labor battalions and the people were grateful for that. The conscription rate for cattle was one cow per herd per month, which was not considered exorbitant...
...their sudden ending. By the very nature of our present controls we cannot ease out of them. We can only ease into permanent control. . . . Whatever may be the seeming dangers of throwing off our controls, they are as nothing in contrast to the dangers of being merely a tended herd...