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Strong carrier forces gave the big Jap base at Rabaul its second bombing: Army bombers also plastered a 10,000-ton warship and other vessels there (see cut). Said a Marine officer on Bougainville: "We owe a lot to the Air Force and Navy surface forces. We'd have been under the gun if they hadn't knocked out the Japanese air power in this area and prevented enemy surface forces from reaching...
...Atlantic flank, was holding grim and elaborate civil-defense exercises, and rumor ran fast that she might be about to join the Allies. If, in the logic of events, Germany declared war on Portugal, the squeeze would fall on Franco. He knows, better than most, that the Allies owe him no gratitude, that any advance against him would be an advance against Hitler...
...Typical Boggs client is a doctor whose collections averaged around 50% of what was owed him and whose income, never over $5,000, had dropped to $3,600. Boggs found that the man did not even know the full names of many of his patients, nor what they owed him. He needed a rest, but did not dare take a two-week vacation for fear of losing income and patients. Boggs made him go away for a month, sent out handsome engraved announcements saying why the doctor had gone and when he would be back. On his return, the doctor...
...misdemeanor: possession of the drug marijuana, a violation which, if it could be universally detected, would land a great many jazz musicians behind prison bars. It is no secret that some of the finest flights of American syncopation, like some of the finest products of the symbolist poets, owe much of their expressiveness to the use of a drug. But the nature and effects of marijuana, specifically, are a good deal more of a secret than they need...
...disapprove of what the "shore patrol boys" do. What I mean to say is that I can't understand why a boy and girl would carry on so in the historical Boston Common. "That such a situation exists is distressing to all, I am sure. We certainly all owe a vote of thanks to the Boston Traveler...