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...scripted by Norman Krasna (Bachelor Mother), is no equal of The Ghost. Occasional touches-word of La Dietrich's honky-tonk past conveyed from ear to ear at her introduction to New Orleans' society, a wedding gown floating mysteriously down the Mississippi, shutters opening drowsily on the quay at dawn-give proof that Clair is still there. But the rest is without much imagination or invention...
...describing the flight for British Broadcasting Corp. "There were invalids, some so ill that they had to be carried on stretchers, but they had to be taken back and none knows to what fate because it was impossible to get them on ship. . . . We stood for hours on the quay and the heat increased. One poor lady died. We had to pass through customs-heaven knows why-and at last got on board...
Huge crowds jammed the docks in Montevideo harbor one morning last week, cheered loud & long as the sleek, grey U. S. S. Quincy steamed slowly up to the quay. No automobiles were permitted within two blocks of the wharf and heavy guards kept the crowds far from the cruiser's berth. But when sailors came ashore they were greeted with enthusiastic cries of "Viva Roosevelt!" "Viva los Estados Unidos...
...Vares are out, Quay and Penrose are dead, Joe Grundy is superannuated. The man who ran the G. O. P. in Pennsylvania last week was Mr. Joseph...
...were all that remained last week of the coastal town of Namsos (see map). In the snow outside the hospital French doctors had stained a giant crimson cross, which German bombers respected. The Germans' ability to aim was proved by gaping holes in the little (800 ft.) town quay, where some 15,000 British and French troops had landed from small boats, from big transports (including the 21,833-ton Empress of Australia, see p. 25) that had to anchor out in the fjord...