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Nothing can be done to ease the jarring shock of the first reports of casualties to their next of kin. But the Army last week adopted a procedure designed to eliminate the gnawing doubts and anxieties that invariably follow its terse telegrams. Henceforth the telegrams will be followed by full, fast follow-up reports direct from theaters...
Preacher Howard has baptized hundreds of Ozark people. One of his strangest converts was an old granny. The blind old woman summoned him to her cabin, said: "From what I heerd about ye, preacher, I reckon I kin trust ye ter keep a secret. Hit's always been a deep sorrer in my life, I kin tell ye. My own children don't know and nobody else here knows. But, preacher, I feel I ain't much longer fer this world and I jist gotta confess hit ter somebody...
This week the Rumanians handed over to the Russians ex-Premier Ion Antonescu, ex-Foreign Minister Mihai Antonescu (no kin), famed Nazi Balkan Expert Dr. Karl Clodius...
...Drew Pearson. Cousin Patton, just defeated in a Texas run-off primary, met Pearson in the House restaurant, promptly pulled out a brown-handled knife, began to pound Pearson on the chest. Shouted Patton: "You beat me, you beat me. . . ." He demanded that the honor of another Patton (no kin) be cleared: ". . . you stabbed General Patton in the back when you wrote that story about him. You apologize to General Patton or I'll cut your god-damned throat." Pearson was whisked out of the restaurant by protectors while Patton was seized by the wrists. Onlookers believed that Patton...
...before taking off for Europe last week, Lieut. General Brehon Somervell fired the question at 300 top-ranking officers of his Army Service Forces, gathered at Fort Leonard Wood. For them the question was rhetorical: the A.S.F. already knows most of the answers. But for U.S. soldiers and their kin what Somervell had to say next was a cold draft on many warm hopes...