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...Freda Kirchwey of The Nation last week felt what a paratrooper feels when his chute opens. Her request for emergency contributions, sent out several weeks ago to The Nation's friends and subscribers (TIME, March 1), clicked. Reported Editor Kirchwey: "The response . . . has been so generous and so prompt that I feel certain . . . The Nation's immediate future is secure...
Candidates were particularly reminded to remember to bring the two soft pencils mentioned on the admission forms. And again Perkins emphasized that prompt appearance at 9 o'clock is mandatory. "No one can be admitted one minute after...
Answer to Frankness. The Russian reaction was prompt and compliant. Izvestia printed recapitulations of U.S. aid to Russia recently made by Lend-Lease Administrator Edward Stettinius Jr. A Moscow radio announcer broadcast similar material at a convenient speed for stenographers to take it down-a tip-off that provincial papers were expected to print it. Ambassador Litvinoff in Washington said: "Supplies received through Lend-Lease have been an enormous help and as such deeply appreciated by the people of the Soviet Union, who are fully aware of its extent...
Last week the Spartan old soldier stayed up beyond his usual prompt bedtime: 10 p.m. Not until the clocks in his colonnaded, white-walled Moorish home in Algiers pointed to 11:30 did General Henri Honore Giraud, High Commissioner of North Africa, lay down his pen. He had carefully studied a memorandum from the Fighting French. Just as carefully the General had studied out his answer. There were some points on which he and General Charles de Gaulle of the Fighting French were in agreement. On others-well, wise men move slowly...
Newest U.S. air slang in Britain, where it is always received with enthusiasm and prompt use, is "sweating out." This usually means stewing in one's own juice, as "sweating out" a reprimand from a commanding officer. But it also has less serious meanings. Airmen in England sweat out a chow line (i.e., wait for food) or a routine assignment like a training flight...