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Into Helsinki's pock-marked airport swooped a big plane with a red star. The first eleven members of the Allied Armistice Control Commission-Russians all-shook hands briefly with Foreign Minister Enckell, started on a conducted search for living quarters. Their chief, Pavel Orlov, Russia's Minister to Finland after the Russian invasion of 1939, decided that the former Estonian Legation was an anachronism, gave orders to move in. Then everybody headed for a state dinner, tendered by new Premier Urho Jonas Castren. Eighty more Commission members-all Russians-were due the next day. Impassively the Finns...
...though to underscore the threat, carriers, detached from Spruance's Fifth Fleet, steamed up to the Bonins. Their planes circled over the Port Lloyd anchorage used by Commodore Matthew C. Perry in 1853, then dived to pock the runways of Peel Island (Chichi Jima) which Perry had vainly urged the U.S. to take for a coaling station...
Twelve good women and true were hard at work last week pondering such social problems as "Should a pock-marked woman marry a blind...
...mottled. The gaudy umbrellas are folded and locked away. Inside the arched entrance of Newport's famed Casino, newly installed racks hold a few bicycles, and a sign reads: "Officers Club. For members only." From one or two of the ten still playable courts comes the subdued pock of a quiet game. Ten other courts are overrun by rank grass. Old Tom Pettitt, the Superintendent of Tennis, straw hat on head, still sits on the clubhouse porch. The deserted Championship Court is kept inviolate, awaiting the return of champions...
Sound War. When the blitz began, sound recording became an effective claymore against rumor. Censorship hid the facts of Liverpool's first severe bombing, and word of mouth had the city anything from pock-marked to a smoking ruin. BBC wheeled a sound truck into Liverpool, got inhabitants to talk into the microphone, recorded the sounds of traffic, of reconstruction, of life going on. The broadcast recording made it clear that Liverpool was unbroken and unafraid...