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...nosed meekly into New Hampshire's Piscataqua River and disgorged the cargo of the week. Aboard the sleek Nazi submarine, which may have been headed for Japan, were: 1) cold-eyed, natty Lieut. General Ulrich Kessler of the German air force; 2) a mysterious civilian in a wrinkled raincoat and baggy suit, clutching a bulging cardboard suitcase; 3) two minor Luftwaffe officers and five German naval officers and technicians; 4) some interesting metal dispatch boxes apparently full of papers and armament blueprints. Missing were the bodies of two unnamed Japanese who committed harakiri when surrender was ordered. Explained...
Franklin Roosevelt appeared on the rear platform at 9 o'clock, and the Metropolitan Police Band launched brassily into ruffles, flourishes and the resounding Hail to the Chief. By now the sky had blackened. But Franklin Roosevelt, bundled in a grey raincoat, ordered the automobile's top put down before he settled in beside Harry Truman and Henry Wallace...
...Build the Ark. But WPB's action was like slipping a raincoat on the economy to prepare for the deluge of cutbacks and contract cancellations to come. The big job of building the ark was up to Congress. In galloping haste, War Mobilizer James F. Byrnes hustled up Cap itol Hill last week to warn Congress that by the closing months of the year "many persons may be unemployed." He demanded quick action on legislation for contract termination, manpower regulations, unemployment insurance...
...story concerns a handsome U.S. oil salesman, working the Far East for all it is worth, and a beautiful young American teacher, a hard-headed idealist in lipstick and raincoat. These two meet in the shell-screech and Kleiglight of Paramount's Chinese war. They help the Chinese, they love, and he dies. In depicting these events, several Paramount writers have had their characters speak out in such terms as: "Women just know things like that" (intuition); "It's the funniest feeling-I wish I could tell you what it's like" (love); "I am afraid...
...majority of the ERC from the B School got in around eleven yesterday morning, and betwen long waits in the dust and cold wind we were issued toilet articles and raincoat, wre assigned bunks in the barracks, were issued blankets and sheets, and were shown how to make our beds in accordance with the Army's rigorous standards of perfection...