Word: malling
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During the "little blitz" early this year, the Germans cut loose with one characteristically short, severe raid on London's West End, landed a heavy bomb squarely in the street at the western end of Pall Mall, with a shower of explosives and incendiaries on nearby buildings...
...switch flicked. The microphone in the Secretary of the Navy's office came alive. Along the cavernous halls of the sprawling ten-winged Navy Building, up & down the corridors of the Navy Annex across the Potomac, through all the temporary Navy buildings cluttering the Mall, boomed the taut voice of Under Secretary James V. Forrestal: It is with profound regret that I announce to the naval service the death of the Secretary of the Navy...
...distinguished from Pepsodent, belies his gags about his good friend. Last year Pepsodent paid $225,000 to finance Hope's supersuccessful Army camp tours (TIME, Sept. 20), a new high. (Jack Benny-also a smart man with a dollar-recently decided to leave Grape-Nuts for Pall Mall cigarets, where he too will get a budget for personal promotion.) The fact seems to be that a team like Luckman and Hope pays off both partners...
...Holy Land of our forefathers which was given to Israel for eternal heritage by the Lord, blessed be His name, with oath and covenant." The Vice President, his voice low, squirmed through a diplomatically minimum answer and the rabbis took trolley cars to the Lincoln Memorial. Across the Mall rolled the Star-Spangled Banner, chanted in the strange, almost sobbing intonation of Hebrew. Then the rabbis faded out of sight and out of mind...
...constant publicity of our Eagle's West (otherwise known as D-41 McKinock, where you reach out the window and lek a star, or watch the mall plane to New York flying several hundred feet slow you) has caused many curiosity seekers to brave the long climb up four fights--just to look at us. Unfortunately, several casualties have fallen by the way-side, and the bodies are being stacked on the third floor until positive identification can be made...