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...news from the White House was the President's pronouncement on the partial reconversion which will follow V-E day. Without waiting for V-E day, Harry Truman...
...Partial relief for a war-shortage headache was prescribed in Washington last week: WPB approved the manufacture of some 500,000 dozen new golf balls with synthetic (neoprene) rubber centers. (Tests showed that the new balls were 15 yards short of the real thing on a 225-yd. drive.) It was a drop in the bucket compared to the yearly peacetime output of 3,000,000 dozen, but it would help...
Like the medieval werewolves that still roam through horror fiction, the Nazi Werewolves are partial to human flesh. "Brave as lions and cunning as serpents," they are a secret group of avenging terrorists, pledged to destroy both Allied invaders and German "traitors." Already they have assassinated the Allied-appointed Mayors of Aachen and Meschede (TIME, April 9) and killed three U.S. officers in Frankfurt...
...heard their complaints before. Justice Minister François de Menthon was too reluctant in purging collaborationists, too lax in setting up adequate tribunals. Food Minister Paul Ramadier was too slow in allaying hunger, too inefficient in building up a distribution system. Information Minister Pierre Henri Teitgen was too partial in distributing newsprint, too sluggish in breaking up the paper trusts. The Government had not removed these men. Gravely Assembly Speaker Felix Gouin observed: "Our deliberations are useless if no heed is paid to them...
...Decca records, which Crosby has helped to make, put out statistics which offered a partial answer. Crosby can sing almost any type of song, and sing it well. His best-sellers are a ballad (White Christmas, 1,700,000 records), a hymn (Silent Night, 1,500,000), a cowboy song (Don't Fence Me In, 1,250,000), a romantic love song (Sunday, Monday and Always, more than one million...