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Colonel Pfeil's main task (under the technical supervision of Adjutant General Emory S. Adams) is to keep the boys from getting homesick. His weapons: motion pictures, ping-pong, baseball, pool tables, camp huts where soldiers can dance, play games (crap shooting is discouraged), write home under the eye of impregnably respectable middle-aged hostesses...
Ever since World War II first loomed on Sweden's four horizons, such Nazi journals as the Hamburg Fremdenblatt have waged a savage campaign of abuse against the Gazette and its owner. Rumor said last winter that Nazi trade negotiators even threatened reprisals against Swedish ship ping unless Editor Segerstedt were silenced (TIME, Feb. 26). Nevertheless, though Sweden was gradually encircled, Torgny Segerstedt went on writing as he pleased...
...Mary Lou Isleib), Harold Lloyd's two daughters, the Brentwood Campfire Girls, Westlake schoolmates. Fortnight ago home was made more interesting by the completion of an elaborate playhouse with an auditorium seating 85, a room for her collection of rare dolls, a basement with bowling alley and ping-pong table, a room for framing and filing prize fan mail...
...foot of Shakespeare Cliff newsmen bought cigarets and ice cream, between raids, from an old woman who thanked them cheerily, told them that Hitler's war had saved her business. Army men, who got to Dover first, had all the girls, so newspapermen spent their evenings playing ping-pong in the hotel basement. Their favorite character was a bloated barrage balloon which they named Sefton Delmer. after a 252-lb. reporter for the London Daily Express. Shot down in flames one day last week, Delmer was their only casualty. Few hours later, Delmer II slowly ascended into the twilight...
...German Emperor and King of Prussia. Fuhrer Adolf, ac cording to some reports, would like to see Wilhelm II return to the Reich, live out his days as a Hohenzollern Junker; but the ex-Kaiser, while accepting the protection of Hitler's own guards, kept on chop ping wood at Doom...