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...Result. On the Burma front, a thoughtful soldier wrote to his mother in England: "Don't worry about me, mum. I'll keep my head down." Later hit by fly ing shrapnel, he wrote again: "In the future I'll keep both ends down...
...Remained publicly mum about a one-day flare-up in Congress over whether or not the U.S. had given a U.S. cruiser to the Russians. The question was angrily raised by New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges. No one seemed to care about the cruiser; but everyone agreed they wanted more information from the White House...
...Conferred with Ambassador to Britain John G. Winant and Ambassador to Russia Averell Harriman, remained firmly mum about both conferences...
...Major Walker M. Mahurin, shot down over Europe the day of his 21st victory, returned to England-safe, sound, mum on how he escaped...
...startling idea-that magnetism, like electricity, flows in currents and can decompose water (TIME, Jan. 24). U.S. physicists kept politely mum. Their skeptical silence annoyed Dr. Felix Ehrenhaft of Manhattan. Recently, before the American Physical Society at Pittsburgh, he enunciated his theory again...