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Mary Booth, still in her Salvation Army uniform, had no easy time at Petershausen. When she arrived, together with her short, plump secretary, the Gestapo men said disgustedly: "Ach, the Salvation Army's coming!" To them she was a constant source of ridicule; to her fellow prisoners-Poles, Frenchmen, a few Englishwomen and some British sailors-she was a source of fascination. She never took her Army bonnet off in public. In the thrice-daily exercise periods (two hours in the morning, four in the afternoon, one after supper) she strode determinedly around the schoolyard, her secretary always three...
...Swiss reporters turned bland, unimpressed faces toward this routine announcement. Then Dr. Schmidt leaned his plump, manicured hands flat on the heavy table. "There will be," he said viciously, "no place for such editors in the new Europe. We will make short shift of them. Perhaps they will find their future home in the steppes of Asia, or maybe it would be best simply to send them off into the Great Beyond...
...around Winston Churchill, Britain was stirring with hopes that the war would bring great democratic changes. It seemed no more than a minor symptom last week that the Archbishop of Canterbury, plump, vigorous William Temple, should continue the trend of his Malvern conference (TIME, Jan. 20, 1941) by proposing that the Government take over the issuance of credit (i.e., banking). Referring to Britain's five great banks, * he declared: "Money, or credit which does duty for money, has become in effect a monopoly...
Tall, blue-eyed Ginny Simms, official sweetheart of 100 college fraternities, fingered the rabbit's foot Judy Garland had slipped her, flashed a toothy smile at a husky sailor, a slick-haired soldier, a plump marine. Blues-singing Ginny was introducing "Three Greatest Guest Stars in the World," as she emceed the premiere of Philip Morris' Johnny Presents Ginny Simms (NBC, Tues. 8-8:30 p.m. E.W.T.) The three servicemen were allowed to telephone anybody anywhere...
...smiling, plump-cheeked woman sat stiffly in a wheel chair before a CBS microphone last Sunday afternoon and sang to the lush strains of Andre Kostelanetz's orchestra. To thousands of listeners the ring of Marjorie Lawrence's voice was the most cheering news in many...