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...early evening Albert Clément and his wife left the office of Le Cri du Peuple on the Rue Vivienne and started toward the boulevard. A small bicyclist, standing near by in a dark blue beret and shirt, suddenly pushed his wheel into the Cléments and fired four pistol shots, killing M. Clément and wounding his wife...
...back to the U.S., in one swift week. Citizens, thousands of them, chiseled or lied to their rationing boards, drove off with X cards and 6-3 cards- giving them more than those who could not or would not think up reasons why they should be given preferential treat-ment during...
...talk is of a cut to 50%. Some alarmists said the Govern-ment would take over the whole business-buying, selling and distributing. OPA big shots wondered how to ration coffee, tentatively planned to use the sugar cards, already distributed. But U.S. citizens were worried most of all-with gin, Coca-Cola, tea and coffee all scarce or near-scarce, the future had a milk & water look...
Seversky argues that the men who made the air mistakes have no business ruling the U.S. air in 1942. From the recent past, he hauls many a U.S. mistake to prove his point. He declares that U.S. pursuit planes were scandalously lacking in power, arma ment, range and over-all combat efficiency when World War II began, that many models now in production are already out-of-date. Says Sascha: "It is about time we stopped bragging. ... If we continue to live in a fool's paradise of self-congratulation and far-fetched alibis, there is nothing ahead...
...sides). One of the most sinewy of contemporary scores, by a onetime German Kulturbolschewik now living in the U.S. This symphonic suite, taken from Hindemith's opera about 16th-Century Painter Matthias Grünewald, describes three sections of Matthias' great Isenheim Altarpiece: Angelic Concert, Entomb ment, Temptation of St. Anthony. Glow ingly played and recorded...