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...Bases in Newfoundland, Bermuda, Trinidad, British Guiana, the Bahamas, St. Lucia, Jamaica, Antigua were released to the U.S. in 1940, technically in return for 50 overage destroyers. Interpreted literally, the leases give the U.S. possession but not sovereignty for 99 years. British sentiments apply equally to U.S. war installations in the Middle East, India, the Pacific, Africa...
This immediately sent political reporters into long columns of feverish speculation. They examined this meager phrase, with all the care of a music critic listening to Lily Pons hitting the F above high C in the mad scene from Lucia. Was Mr. Dewey now a millimeter's distance more available? Or less...
...them were "The Syndicate" that had helped him filch at least $1 million in union dues, and blackmail the czars of Hollywood on a Hollywood scale. Staring coldly back at Willie Bioff's fat, pointing finger was an all-star police lineup: Gunman Paul ("The Waiter") de Lucia; pistol-packing ex-Capone Muscleman Phil D'Andrea; Beer-war Veteran Charles ("Cherry-Nose Joy") Gioe; Machine-gun Expert Louis ("The Man to See") Compagna; Frank ("The Immune") Maritote, alias Frankie Diamond; 14-time indicted Ralph Pierce; John Rosselli and Newark's Louis Kaufman...
Designer of the arch was Lucia Helene Willoughby, a portrait painter and 23-year-old daughter of Broadway Committee Chairman P. A. Willoughby. Said the Broadway Association of her effort: "In depicting the Four Freedoms, Miss Willoughby has created several modifications of the original theme as developed by Norman Rockwell [TIME, June 21]. . . . Freedom of Speech . . . will show separate scenes. . . . Freedom from Want has been designated for the west panel. Here is portrayed Cornucopia pouring out its bounteous contents. . . . The fourth panel . . . will delineate Freedom from Fear. The ever-protecting element of mother love will be indicated by a mother...
...submarines off Casablanca, Rabat and Algiers. The five, which went down with wartime paint and wartime names, were once well-known passenger ships: American Export Line's Excalibur and Exeter, American President Line's President Cleveland and President Pierce and Grace Line's luxury liner Santa Lucia. Casualties were "very small," said Washington...