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...have been working on this Australian edition ever since last May, when we got a cable from one of our correspondents in Australia, Robert Sherrod. "The soldiers out here are probably the news-hungriest mob in history," he said. "A seven weeks old copy of TIME just arrived in camp and has been dog-eared to ribbons. Repeatedly, officers and enlisted men have stormed at me almost angrily, 'Why can't we get TIME over here while the news is still fresh?' I believe news from home is more important to morale now than cigarets, and sometimes...
Britain last week broke its own Mediterranean blockade. Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton told the House of Commons that Britain and the U.S. together would send 8,000 tons of wheat to the hungriest country in the world, Greece...
...Mule feed"-pressed cotton seeds eaten only by the hungriest mules-can be combined with carbolic-acid derivatives to form a new plastic, reported Fritz Rosenthal of the University of Tennessee...
Chamber music is caviar to musical gourmets. Caviar from the very finest of sturgeons is the chamber music produced by the famed Budapest String Quartet, world's top-ranking string ensemble. To gobble up this treat last fortnight Manhattan's hungriest musical highbrows gathered in Town Hall to hear the first concert of the New Friends of Music's annual chamber-music series...
...reverse. Great Britain came out of World War I with a group of battle-scarred veterans of propaganda and a world-wide reputation for amazing cleverness in molding public opinion. For many a post-War year the seediest remittance man in South America was judged a secret agent; the hungriest British novelist lecturing to the U. S. was thought by many to be a Foreign Office spokesman. Britain's propaganda office was not organized until long after the invasion of Belgium, nevertheless reaction gave neutrals an enduring suspicion of Britons bearing news...