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...Peter McGuinness nor any other authentic representative of Greenpoint referred to the section as Green-pernt [TIME, June 21]. I knew McGuinness well . . . and I never once heard him or anyone else from Greenpoint mispronounce the section's name. . .It is perfectly true that New Yorkers often render "oi" as "er," and vice versa, but I can swear under oath that Greenpoint is called Greenpernt only by people from Coney Island, Croton-on-Hudson and Beverly Hills...
...help win the war, the U.S. sent Russia some $10,800,000,000 worth oi Lend-Lease supplies. To help the Russians understand their American allies better the U.S. last year launched two Russian-language magazines, produced by OWI and sold throughout the U.S.S.R. Amerika was pocket-size, crammed with informative, uplifting articles. Appearing in alternate months, as a change of diet, was a handsome, 80-page, slick-paper, LiFE-size magazine called Amerika Illiustrirovannoye (America Illustrated...
...priest, reported the Reaper, is Lei Tim-oi, 30, a onetime deaconess...
Small World. In Los Angeles, two cars collided; the drivers turned out to be J. D. Wiener and Alfred Hamburger; the victim of another crash, involving a couple of thieves making off with stolen bottles oi gin, turned out to be Tom Collins...