Word: prints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neatest little spy stories ever uncovered broke into print last week in Los Angeles. Arrested by FBI men were two dapper little Japanese and Al Blake. U.S. citizen. Al turned out to be no spy but a hero: he had pulled off an amateur job of counter-espionage that would have made a professional spy turn green with envy...
...Bless You, Mr. Chamberlain (We're all mighty proud of you. You look swell holding your umbrella. All the world loves a wonderful feller . . .). (This song is now out of print...
...Christmas; the expected boon to trade had not materialized; the changed date had been an experiment and the experiment had not worked. But at this point, said Mr. Sullivan, "there was encountered an often-ignored condition, the tendency of mistakes to take root and become permanent. Manufacturers of calendars print their wares a year ahead. Such of them as are not obstinately hostile to innovation had printed Mr. Roosevelt's date for Thanksgiving in their calendars...
...Infantry, they drink up all the beers, The Cavalry, Artillery, and Corps of Engineers, They couldn't lick the Infantry in a hundred thousand years. > Last song in the Army book, first when the columns are marching, is still You're in the Army Now. > Unfit to print for the 1941 Army was Mad'moiselle from Armentières. Soldiers with a yen for back-room balladry will have to get along with a laundered, abbreviated Bastard King of England (retitled The Minstrels Sing of an English King) and a sanitized Colombo (borrowed from the Book...
Last week Reader's Digest reported a thriving Latin-American friendship: Current print order of Selecciones del Reader's Digest is 350,000, biggest of Spanish-language magazines. Of these, about 255,-ooo will go to South American newsstands, 75,000 to subscribers, about 20,000 to Spanish classes in U.S. high schools and colleges...