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Some promoters have seized upon the commercial aspects of the Army Postal Service, established radio clubs whose members pledge themselves to write letters to soldiers every week in return for lapel pins. Last week the War Department was looking for a way to crack down on such schemes, to make sure soldiers got the letters they wanted to get instead of just letters. Meantime, the perspiring Army Postal Service continued to slog through higher & higher mountains of mail. Only one thing was constant: 10% of all overseas letters were misdirected...
Franklin Roosevelt was in fine fettle. It was St. Patrick's Day: he wore a greenish tweed suit, a green tie, a green ribbon in his lapel; on his desk stood a vase of green carnations, a pot of shamrock. He was pleased at having a big cat to let out of the bag-General MacArthur's new command in Australia; and he had something else up his sleeve. He had found one of those sly, semi-scholarly parallels on which he loves to impale his more annoying critics, like marshmallows on a toasting fork...
...present supply is limited but all wardens will eventually get armbands and lapel insignia as soon as the city of Cambridge can supply them. All insignia are the property of Cambridge and must be eventually return to the city. Only that part of the University situated in Cambridge will be allowed to draw armbands...
...Washington, last week, Correspondent Joseph Chiang made things much easier by pinning on his lapel a large badge reading "Chinese Reporter - NOT Japanese - Please...
...white-haired woman beside Vag leaned against him as he clumsily placed an arm around her shoulders. A lapel ribbon with three gold stars modestly measured her sacrifice, and Vag's own eyes filled when she wiped away a tear with a black handkerchief. Each star represented a brother. He looked over his mother's head toward the platform, finally locating the defeated President. Vag followed the fixed stare of the man's eyes down to the end of the cane which rested beside him; and then, looking at the worried face, Vag tried to pierce into the throughts...