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...July 3 handed the Commander of the French Squadron in Oran Bay ( 200 miles east of Gibraltar) an ultimatum giving him six hours to join the British, go to America to be interned or scuttle his ships. The French officers began to argue with one another. Many a sailor refused to fight. Most of them did not even prepare their vessels for action (it takes a considerable head of steam to work the turrets of a battleship...
...lives with a Persian cat in Manhattan. Last week Storyteller Mack celebrated her tenth anniversary in radio by directing The Five Hundred Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins for the Columbia Workshop. It was the 1,304th show that she had had a hand in. First, in 1930, was Sinbad the Sailor, with a cast of grownups and children. Dissatisfied with the adults in Sinbad, Miss Mack decided to round up a group of untrained small fry, to teach by her own methods. Among others, she has taught the Mauch twins and Billy Halop, the Dead End Kid. Miss Mack...
Fortnight ago the British Legation in Montevideo issued an unusual decree: no British sailor, naval or mercantile, was to leave his ship without a local Briton as escort. Just as amazing was the official reason: Uruguayan maidens had become so immodestly pro-Allied that the honest British tars were embarrassed;* wherever they went they were greeted with effusive hugs and left covered with smears of sticky lip rouge. As the practice grew fashionable, local belles vied for the honor of kissing the most sailors, depositing the most makeup...
...next to religion. Because the Catholic Church is as widespread as its name implies, wars often line up one nation's Catholics against another's. Typical last week was Arthur Cardinal Kinsley, Catholic leader in Britain. His Eminence announced that he would give every British Catholic soldier, sailor and aviator (2,250,000 in all) a personally blessed crucifix of bakelite (to save metal) with the crucified figure "sunk into the cross so that it can't catch in the wearer's uniform." Then Cardinal Kinsley went on the air to preach a holy war against...
...peasant boy is imprisoned for feeding barley to a hen; a pastor for calling his congregation to account before God for their cowardly acceptance of evil. A professor of law delivers, to the delight of his students, a perverse, seditious lecture on theories of Nazi justice. A sailor is shot for having attended a workers' mass meeting in Manhattan. The local head of the Gestapo cracks under the strain to his decency, warns the city's Jews on the eve of the pogrom of November 1938. In the closing story a mediocre Nazi writer rediscovers his honesty, gets...