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...professor of physics, was long known by his friends to have a prodigious memory. Recently he took a test, remembered all details of the most complicated timetables, thousands of dates and telephone numbers, the population of every parish in Italy; he knew the bandmaster and the march of every regiment, the name of every mule in the Italian Army...
Britain's Postmaster General is Clement Richard Attlee, onetime Mayor of Stepney, onetime Major of the South Lancashire Regiment, and a loyal Laborite. But in the matter of letter carriers' décolletage Postmaster General Attlee is a Major first, then a Laborite. Last week he denied the petition of the perspiring postmen...
...mayors adjourned to Claridge's where at a three-hour secret session all jealousies and animosities were threshed. The result was appointment of a soviet of five members to control everything, apportion the speech-making and publicity. Remarked Mayor Baker later: "This party's like a regiment with only generals and no privates. But now everybody takes a turn at speaking. All's quiet on the western front." The mayors' soviet kept things more orderly thereafter but peace was threatened again when a report got about that the French Government was to decorate Mayor Baker...
...refractory midshipmen* "First time in the history of the U. S. Navy."WRONG, TIME! When benevolent, generous Albert, King of the Belgians, visited the U. S. after the World War, he requested that the Academy's strict regulations of punishment be set aside the day he reviewed the regiment of middies. Several hundred Navy alumni, many TIME readers, remember joyfully King Albert's thoughtfulness...
...initialed meat barrels, declared: "This cant name has got almost as current as 'John Bull.' The letters U. S. on Government wagons are supposed to have given rise to it." The Gazette of the U. S. (Philadelphia) in 1816 explained that a countryman, meeting a regiment of light dragoons, asked what the U. S. L. D. on their caps meant and was told "Uncle Sam's Lazy Dogs...