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...ever studied U. S. history, last week was plugging through the late Lord Bryce's standard work The American Commonwealth. She has dropped the study of German, taken up Spanish. Both moppets and their Corgi terrier, Jane, have gone on wartime rations, both collect tinfoil, roll bandages, knit socks for Tommy Atkins. Elizabeth contributes from her savings to the Red Cross, Girl Guides, Air Ambulance Fund, buys National War Savings Bonds which are beyond the penny means of her little sister...
After donating the largest contribution I could afford to the drive in our city for an ambulance for Britain, after knitting until I could count knit and purl in my sleep for Bundles for Britain, after wrapping bandages until my arms were sore, I sat down to read your magazine of Sept. 2 and what should I come across but an article on the Duchess of Windsor, whom I had admired. She sent for Wayne Forrest, a famous hairdresser, to come to Nassau to do her hair. For this trip he had to fly and bring a permanent-wave dryer...
...were staging their invasion. Last week Columbia Broadcasting System broadcast his Cortege over WABC, and U. S. critics, who had not been hearing much Milhaud lately, found that Darius Milhaud could still turn a phrase of hard-bitten counterpoint as expertly as any of his contemporaries. A massive, close-knit dead march, the Cortege Funebre was imposingly militant rather than sad, made The Netherlands' fall ring with the relentless finality of doom...
...July choice-the sixth time since 1930 that the R. B. C. had picked a Horton tome. Whether or not they accepted Theologian Horton's answer (a determined "Yes"), believers of all creeds-and of none-found his latest book as full of close-knit arguments as a Jonathan Edwards sermon was full of hellfire. U. S. controversialists who wish to argue with Dr. Horton, however, must wait until fall: he is on another jaunt...
What is to be done with mankind. . .? Whatever these Allies say, they have never been so firmly knit together, and they know in that lies their salvation...