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Working quickly, the G.R.S. men placed the airman's remains in a rubber-lined, zippered pouch. An aircraft expert combed the wreck, snipped off bits of metal bearing serial numbers. Then the party scrambled back to its own lines. By last week, the plane had been identified as a light L19 spotter, and in the G.R.S. laboratory at Kure, Japan, the pilot's skeleton had been assembled, his height determined, dental chart plotted. If the data obtained from this work checks with a name listed on a unit roster, another U.S. fighting man's name will...
...possum called Pogo. Born three years ago in the moribund New York Star* Pogo has multiplied himself with possumly precocity, and currently appears in 210 U.S. newspapers. Cartoonist Walt Kelly has now collected the best-known adventures of Pogo into a book which all but filled Santa's pouch with little marsupials. In fact, during the month of December, Pogo has been the fastest-selling book...
...going to stand up and raise their right hands. It is a very important and solemn thing, and I insist on it." But some of his chores are more complicated. He remembers with embarrassment the time when he had the ashes of a diplomat shipped back by diplomatic pouch. When the pouch was opened in Washington, Mr. Will found that the cardboard container had split, and the ashes were spilled. Mr. Will summoned an undertaker, who carefully sifted the diplomat out of the mail, put the ashes in a suitable urn and sent them on to the waiting relatives...
Mississippi's pouch-eyed John Rankin rose in the House last week to oppose an immigration proposal. "Our immigration laws should not be set aside," he cried. "This country is being literally flooded with un-American elements, a vast number of whom are today undermining and trying to wreck this Government and to destroy the American way of life." Colleagues pointed out that the bill was only designed to admit one three-year-old boy, half Japanese and half American, who had been adopted by an Air Force captain and his wife in Japan. "They always have some kind...
...Canada's atomic spy ring, uncovered in 1945. He skipped home to Russia to avoid arrest. ¶In Tokyo, Tassman Evgeny Egorov has never been known to turn in a story for clearance by U.N. censors; he is presumed to send all of his material either by diplomatic pouch or by radio code from the Russian Embassy. ¶In Teheran, Tass's representative has never been seen to visit Radio Pahlevi, from which all other correspondents transmit their copy. He, too, is getting his reports out by diplomatic pouch. ¶In many countries, the Russians no longer make...