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...Defense Headquarters at Ottawa announced that Private W. H. Smith had been sentenced to 18 months' detention after confessing: "On Jan. 2, 1945, as I was crossing the gangplank, embarking on the ship for overseas, I deliberately threw my rifle and two kit bags overboard. I figured the military police would take me off the boat when I did this." The police...
Harvard members of the College Board for Russian War Relief have announced an intercollegiate dance for the purpose of raising funds for the kit campaign, carried on to aid the peoples of reoccupied Europe. The dance, which is scheduled for Friday evening, March 16, will be free to all servicemen...
...July 6 -Mom: Wings are in sewing kit, am entitled to all stars and more. Be sure to check ins. etc. 10,000 ins. [Roses] to remind me of Helen. I've always loved her. Love kisses same...
Dragon Seed. Then big Ed had an inspiration: why not take the whole kit-&-kaboodle to New York for a typical American businessman's weekend in Manhattan? This proposal was received with mixed feelings. (Said the State Department's Leo Pasvolsky, "It is too frivolous!") But many delegates were keen to go, and pretty soon Host Stettinius had most of them aboard a plane, off for the big city. Naturally the secrecy was intensified-perhaps no Russian wanted Joseph Stalin to hear too many lush details of bouncing about in night clubs...
...British First and the French First, Seventh and Ninth Armies had been destroyed, save for 337,000 beaten men evacuated from Dunkirk; in 1944, the German Seventh Army of up to 500,000 had been destroyed, kit & kaboodle...