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...Korean beer issue mandatory. Then the Blatz Brewing Co. of Milwaukee sent the Secretary of the Army a telegram offering 600,000 cans of beer absolutely free of charge. Not to be outdone, the Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. offered several vatfuls of free beer, too. At that, Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, president of the W.C.T.U., rose in Denver before the 76th convention of her sisterhood to launch a heated counterattack...
Behind the Lines. The scheme of raiding German-held Crete and trotting off with the divisional commander was the brain child of youthful Major Patrick Leigh-Fermor and Captain W. Stanley Moss, who had achieved the schoolboy dream of becoming secret agents. At their base in Cairo, they shared a villa and sampled the fleshpots of Egypt. It was in a nightclub that they first hatched the plot that was to land their party from a motor launch on the south coast of Crete...
...Britons could depend on help from guerrillas and from intelligence corpsmen hidden in the hills. One British agent, a Cretan, actually lived next door to General Kreipe's Villa Ariadne, near the north coast. Through him, Moss and Leigh-Fermor learned the general's daily routine to a nicety-off to headquarters by car at 9 a.m., back in the evening any time after 8 or 8:30 p.m., depending on how many rubbers of bridge he stayed to play...
...quickly became resigned and quite amiable) was rnarched from cave to cave half the length of Crete, while the furious Germans fruitlessly finecombed the island. By the time a Royal Navy motor launch nosed in to a southwest beach and took off both captive and captors, Moss and Leigh-Fermor knew that they had achieved their principal aim-to astound the enemy and make him the laughingstock of the local population...
...find out, a special Public Library Inquiry, headed by onetime Bennington College President Robert D. Leigh, went to work three years ago with a $200,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation. Part of the money went for a nationwide poll of reading habits. Last week the inquiry's answer, The Public Library in the United States (Columbia University Press; $3.75), pronounced the state of the nation's libraries only fair...