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...keen young officer trained for occupation duties was asked at Guam last week whether he thought the enormous, complex job of changing Japan could be done. His answer: yes. He was asked whether he thought the U.S. would in fact succeed in doing it. His answer...
...Labor Party Executive [Committee] which has the right to describe their own party as they wish to do. But this is a very important body. I have been told that it has the power to summon Ministers before it. Evidently Mr. Laski has great power and evidently he is keen to assert it. ... Broadly speaking, it is better that declarations about foreign policy should be made by Ministers of the Crown responsible to the House of Commons...
...good Prince had possessed the keen scent of an avid slot-machine addict he would have been disturbed way back in 1933 - for I still recall as my most embarrassing moment standing at the cashier's window requesting change of a 10-franc note for my father who, though not the least interested in gambling, had discovered a dusty old slot machine in a forsaken corner of the famous Casino. I changed the lowly 10-franc note and Father broke the slot machine. Really...
Engaged. Captain Mildred Helen Mc Afee, 45, keen-witted director of the WAVES, president of Wellesley College (where she spends about ten days a month); and the Rev. Dr. Douglas Horton, 54, internationally known Congregationalist. Wellesley promptly advised that the Captain's marriage would not "affect the situation"; so did the Navy...
Publishers kept a keen eye on those long queues of newspaper buyers. More were there to catch up on the racing results, the comics and the gossip columnists (in that order) than were seeking the news of the war and the world. In front of the staid Times, one observer saw buyers tear out the obituary page, throw the rest of the paper away...