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...Pablo Giamis gave a new twist to calisthenics with the "boas hog scratch" which he says he picked up from the boys down South. The others of the "Cheshire Twins," Jack Ealsey, has paid his dues (two box tops) and is now proudly wearing his Good Sports Club pin again. A lot has happened to Blazing Jack since he crossed the Charles last November...
Colonel Sagmoen soon had his captive in tow-a thin, nervous man, balding at 37 and trimly dressed in a pin-striped business suit. The American growled: "You bastards started this war and we'll show you who's finishing it!" He ordered the prisoner into the back of his jeep...
...Tribune dropped all display advertising so that it could use the newsprint thus saved to print 100,000 extra copies. Many other newspapers did the same. The San Francisco Chronicle went farther, dropping all chatty columns, women's features, etc. PM omitted its regular Sunday picture of a pin-up girl. Everywhere newspapers broke out their 260-and 300-point wood-block headlines (known irreverently to printers as the "Second Coming" type). And even the New Deal-hating Chicago Tribune used a journalistic symbol for mourning, familiar in Lincoln's day: "turning the rules" so that column lines...
...hills, 40 miles southwest of Kassel, tankmen of the U.S. 3rd Armored Division (First Army) ran into a furious battle last week. Germans leveled antiaircraft guns, fought for the little town of Bromskirchen as if it were Berchtesgaden itself. Finally the Americans silenced the guns and learned why that pin point on the map had been so important to the Germans : aboard flatcars on a railroad siding were a dozen new V-2 rockets. They were taken intact...
Miss Belmont specialized in what she called "frustrated love songs," called herself The Blue Velvet Voice. Her singing was popular with men. Columnist Earl Wilson came, watched, went away and wrote simply: "Busting all records." Miss Belmont became a pin-up girl, sent 50,000 photographs of her sweatered self to soldiers who wrote countless formal, polite letters in return...