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...Checker Cab Co. is doing a flourishing business in buggy rides in Boston. The Hub city granted its first hitching-post permit in 300 years last week, planned horse troughs at central gas stations...
...hub of activity is the deluxe Shepheard's Hotel, where males in civvies look as out of place as nuns in a nudist colony. During the day the broad mosaic-floored terrace is empty while the officers are at work. The brown wicker chairs begin to fill around 6:30 p.m., and by 7:30, the hour the bar opens, every seat is occupied. Most people drink rye highballs, Scotch & sodas, or gin & tonics. Nearly everyone wears a different kind of uniform. Sprinkled here & there among the crowd are American and British correspondents seeking crumbs of information, and satisfying...
...press was guessing when it portrayed Winston Churchill arriving in the U.S. with the plea: "Save Suez!" But Churchill has got a clear record of insistence that North Africa is vital, that it is a hub of the Allied war scheme. Still, with the probability of a vast German attack on Russia, and existence of a major Japanese attempt to crush China, danger to the United Nations loomed on every sector of the battlefront. And nowhere had there yet been signs of an offensive to endanger the Axis. All the signs pointed to a summer of bad news...
...Boston press is fond of carrying exclusive stories on the war situation written by famed columnists and correspondents. But what is the use of exclusive stories concerning far off developments when Hub papers seem not even able to cover their own stamping ground? Boston papers have, in their editorial pages, shown themselves jealous guardians of wartime freedom of the press. But what good is freedom of the press when the press freely abuses that freedom...
Initiative was still Russian property last week. The Russians attacked all along the line, from Kerch in Crimea to Karelia, bordering Finland. But they did not capture any of the main German strong points; they, like the Germans, were hub-caught in mud; and every single day of the week the Russian communique had the phrase "no significant change...