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W.W.C. said that Senator Vandenberg, who will be one of the U.S. delegates to the San Francisco Conference, wants the U.S. to boss the world: he wants the kind of unity "which Jonah enjoyed when he was swallowed by the whale...
...Europe long before Munich-went through the bombing of Barcelona and the Spanish War, was bombed again in Brussels in 1940, got out of Belgium just a jump ahead of the Nazis, then worked for months in occupied Paris and collaborating Vichy ("I began to feel like a Jonah"). Two years ago he was awarded a Nieman Fellowship in journalism at Harvard, and five years before that the National Headliners Club gave him a gold plaque for the best spot news coverage of the year for his eyewitness story of the Hindenburg disaster at Lakehurst...
Supporting Evidence. In Manhattan. Edna Dessau, shot and severely wounded last year by one Dr. Samuel Weinrib, told Judge Jonah Goldstein that she did not care about prosecuting the doctor; she merely wanted the return of her prewar girdle, through which the bullet passed. Judge Goldstein refused on the ground that the girdle was state's evidence...
...furnace of these sometimes fumbled campaigns the Navy had forged a powerful weapon. To its fleet had been added strange, unheard-of craft which opened their mouths like Jonah's whale to spew trucks, howitzers, Marines, Seabees, infantrymen, seagoing tanks, onto beaches. To naval warfare had been added a whole new book of "standard procedures" covering the hazardous, complicated job of ship-to-shore ferrying. The "beach master" who stood on shore directing the weird traffic assumed as much importance as the master of a ship...
Believing her doomed, her unhurt 39-man crew pulled off, beefing at her as a Jonah (on this her maiden northbound voyage-motors dead off Punta del Este; motor repairs at Rio; propeller trouble at Recife; 41 days for a 16-day run). The captain and part of his crew were mildly embarrassed when a U.S. man-of-war picked them up after two nights and a day, informed them that cranky, stubborn Victoria had refused to sink and was drifting derelict, and put them back aboard her. There they found the rest of the crew, calmly awaiting their arrival...