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This week, for the 959th time, Society President Jules Masse took to the air over CKAC (Montreal). As always, he opened with Expressions a corriger cette semaine. His prime examples: "Hip! Hip! Hurray!" should give way to "Hourra! Bravo!" and in the counting house Frenchmen should speak of un verificateur de limes, not un auditeur de limes...
Eleanor Jenemann Thompson, 26, wife of the philandering Pittsburgh sergeant who fathered quadruplets (three lived) in wartime England, finally sued him for divorce, opened the way for his marriage to the quadruplets' mother, 24-year-old Norah Carpenter. Grounds: "indignities." Cried ex-Sergeant William H. Thompson: "Hurray!" Mother Norah, still in Derbyshire, promptly inquired about transatlantic plane fares, bubbled: "Boats are too slow...
...Hurray for the Navy Supply Corps School (Harvard Branch)! It has been discovered in a roundabout way that student morale officers (both M and F) were busy planning social affairs, but as far as anyone could find out for a long time, their net accomplishment seemed to be the cultivation of a lovely acquaintanceship with each other. Scuttlebutt was rife on the subject of who was going to entertain whom in the very hear future when on Monday evening the matey came by to ask "All secure?" and "Are you going to the tea dance to be given...
...Plane for Refugees. In the midst of writing these words, I heard a sudden roar, looked overhead at a transport plane circling in low. I heard cries: "Hurray, Hurray" from American enlisted men as the plane circled and landed. "Don't that plane look good. Go kiss it." Someone sang God Bless America...