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...outlandish. If 15,000,000 soldiers were dumped in London, said he, it would not be any worse off than Iceland is now. Further, the British-American occupation has upped living costs for Iceland's residents 70%, disrupted the island's foreign trade, upset many an Icelandic lass. (Last week four U.S. Marines got 10 to 20 years in Portsmouth (N.H.) prison for rape committed in Iceland.) Nevertheless Premier Jönasson was still anxious to cooperate...
...brawlin' lass is Bridget Cass...
...William Shakespeare's birthday (April 23), the BBC broadcast to Germany records of swing versions of his lyrics, It Was a Lover and His Lass, Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind, 0 Mistress Mine, sung by Marion Mann accompanied by Bob Crosby's Bob Cats. Wrote London's Daily Telegraph: "The seemliness of presenting such versions of Shakespeare from his own land and on his own day to a people who have never concealed their respect for his genius is to be raised in Parliament...
...part of the narrative is the classical setup for all war fiction from worst to best: a soldier, a girl, the soldier's friend. The girl, Prudence, is upper-class, erving in the W.A.A.F. Clive, on leave after Dunkirk, is an intelligent, self-educated Yorkshireman of the working lass. They meet, spar, land in a haystack, any their uneasy affair to a vacant hotel in a south-coast resort. There, in a much more profuse and coarse-grained way, they settle down to the business of A Farewell to Arms: bedding, drinking, eating, quareling, comedy, conversation. Prudence...
...Nellie's smart Irish lass...