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...world is the good reporter's hunting ground. No man can tell where a nose for news may pick up the scent. Stories may break in the White House, the Holland tunnel, the Balkans, the South Pole. Number 10 Downing Street, or 1913 Central Avenue, South Bend...
Germany at large slept on, learning only at 8 o'clock that Der Tag had come, when Dr. Goebbels in suave radio tones announced that Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg had been taken "under protection" by the Reich. German laborers plodding to work in wooden-soled shoes, with their black bread and margarine wrapped in a newspaper, scarcely paused to listen at the public loudspeakers. The events of the past six years had endowed them with a stoic indifference which no new violence could shatter. Men over 50 had been drafted and even disabled veterans were called into service...
...Rapids contains more Dutch-blooded Americans than any other U. S. city. In 1846, when Dr. Albertus Christiaan van Raalte, reformer of the Dutch Reformed Church, was looking for a likely settling place, he picked the flat country near the east shore of Lake Michigan, founded the town of Holland. When hard times later hit Pastor van Raalte's flock, it moved inland to neighboring Grand Rapids, where its members' woodcarving talents found jobs in the rising furniture industry. Today, of Grand Rapids' 168,000 inhabitants, from a quarter to a third are of Dutch descent...
Last week as the armed forces of Germany went a-Blitzkrieging into Belgium and Holland, short-wave listeners at CBS and NBC, on the air 24 hours a day for the duration of the crisis, dialed, interpreted, transmitted with feverish haste. The ether rasped and crackled with charges & countercharges: bigwig power-politicians took the air and thundered...
Last week, just before the attack on Holland, reticent Mr. Ward casually announced that he had just received a Christmas card from Glenview, ILL. signed "Hal and Olive"; unwittingly appeared to have knocked his masquerade into a cocked hat. Glenview (pop. 1,886), 20 miles from Chicago, is too small for secrets. Hal and Olive were promptly discovered to be Harold and Olive Kennicott, longtime friends of one Edward Leopold Delaney, with whom they had corresponded in. Berlin...