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...body of a dead Army officer was discovered yesterday in the Charles River by G. Taylor Hess '47, of Adams House, the Metropolitan Police announced last night. It is believed that this officer may have been the one reported missing since November...
...Hess described the corpse as a Lieutenant of medium height, wearing the short overcoat. The cause of his death is not yet definitely established, but drowning seems probable. However, the bloody condition of the face indicated possible violence. A Second Lieutenant, 33 years old, was reported missing here on November 17, and the police believe it may be his body, but the Army has as yet issued no confirmation of this...
...Succeeding Tussauds have carried on. The fingers of at least one member of the Tussaud descendants have always been trained to model in clay and wax. The "Mr. John" who died last week was such a craftsman. Like the founder, he ran the establishment efficiently: four hours after Rudolph Hess dropped into Scotland, his correctly costumed effigy was on display at Tussauds. Mr. John leaves the museum to his son, Bernard Tussaud: the waxworks will go on. And, as for generations, English children and their nurses will make straight for the Chamber of Horrors...
...Nazi battleship Bismarck after it had sunk H.M.S. Hood; 2) Rudolf Hess's flight to Scotland; 3) Nazi invasion of Russia; 4) Pearl Harbor; 5) Allied invasion of North Africa; 6) the Red Army's defense of Sevastopol; 7) the Dieppe raid; 8) the boarding of the Nazi prison ship Altmark and the rescue of its prisoners; 9) the British Eighth Army's drive from El Alamein; 10) the London fire blitz...
...begin thinking about how soon we can re-open the Berlin Bureau which Steve Laird headed for us before America got into the war. Laird had to leave Germany for Switzerland in June 1941 in order to telephone us from a neutral country the true facts about Rudolf Hess and the background of all the sensational events that led up to Hitler's attack on Russia...