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...clutter of an editor's desk. That was where we found it, though the child made a certain amount of trouble it, though the child made a certain amount of trouble until we beat him a trifle with a Class Marshal's baton, rifled his pockets and hid him behind a sign marked "Michael Peebly Chowder and Marching Club, Sections MM-J6 Inclusive." Along with a time whistle, an Eliot Houce saucer, an Ibis, three Dunster spoons, a Shakespeare Folio and a sign from the Fogg reading "Please refrain from breathing on the walls," there was one copy, slightly mutilated...
...Dickie. Last year, just before Lord Louis took over Combined Operations, he was sent to the U.S. to command the bombed aircraft carrier Illustrious, then under repair at Norfolk Navy Yard. On that visit, their U.S. friends saw a new Lord and Lady Louis Mountbatten. Lord Louis no longer hid his light under a fashionable bushel. Once one of London's best-dressed women, Lady Louis was often in uniform. As Lady President of Britain's swank St. John's Ambulance Brigade, she toured the U.S. for the Red Cross. Between chores, the Mountbattens visited their daughters...
...spread of U-boat depredations to the coast of good-neighborly Brazil. U.S. papers, which tabulated their own totals (the Navy issues none for publication), reported that at least 241 ships had been lost off the U.S. coasts since war began. Readers feared that the sea and censorship hid even more...
Jacare took to his new task with simple dignity. He had always idolized a legendary jangadeiro called "Dragon of the Seas" who kidnapped slaves, hid them safely from posses in the hinterland. If the Dragon could free slaves from slavery, figured Jacare, he could free the jangadeiros from exploitation. And the film's publicity would help...
...sketch on the Philip Morris show (Tuesday 8 p.m. E.W.T.). Tempestuous Tallulah had selected a little play called The Road to Jericho, author: Elmer Davis. In no mood to publicize CBS's Newsstar Davis, who shines just as brightly without Miss Bankhead's aid, the NBC boys hid Mr. Davis' light. Read the announcement: "The Road to Jericho, by E. Davis...