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Prisoners can listen to a radio (but not short wave). They like American jazz. It is not unusual to see a K.P. detail sitting around a potato pile singing The Trolley Song with heavy Teutonic accent while they peel. In one compound, Don't Fence Me In is a favorite...
...second and third in the first event, the shot put. Felix ("Muscles") Blanchard, the 220-lb. plebe, set the pace with a 48 ft. 3½-in. heave. The Cadets took only two other firsts-against four, and one tie, for Navy-but Army placed in 13 events to pile up a record 73½-points. Navy, second with 55½, also topped the I.C.4-A winner's mark of 48 set two years ago by N.Y.U...
WHILE THEY WERE BEING BOUND IN A BATTERED PLANT HALF A MILE FROM WHERE THE BATTLE FOR INTRAMUROS STILL RAGED A JAP SNIPER WAS HIDING IN A SCRAP PILE 50 YARDS AWAY. OCCASIONALLY POT-SHOOTING AT PEOPLE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. GUERRILLAS GUARDING THE PLANT ARE STILL UNABLE TO ROUT HIM OUT. WHEN THE PRINTED PAGES WERE BEING TRUCKED TO THE BINDERY IN A WEAPONS CARRIER, THE JAPS FIRED ON US A FEW MILES OUT OF THE CITY. NO ONE WAS HURT...
...settle on his own terms: a thorough house cleaning of National Tea, new executives, new selling methods. When the stockholders meet, March 25, no one doubts that he will get what he wants. And no one doubts that Cuneo, in cleaning out the cobwebs, will make a pile of money...
Instead, it agreed to set up a stockpile in Canada, with U.S. and British funds, let the U.S. draw on it only when the supply of U.S. stones fell below a certain amount. Then it made sure that the U.S. had no excuse to draw on the pile by shipping directly all the diamonds needed. The company had plenty, simply because it buys up surplus diamond production in slack times to keep stones off the market...