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...confession was provoked by the Cambridge City Council. Councilman Michael A. Sullivan, old foe of Harvard,* had persuaded from the Council an order to compel the University Overseers to surrender the statues as scrap metal...
...theatres have the bandstand mounted on rollers, so that it can come forward between the vaudeville acts. But not the RKO Boston. That jumble you heard was the music getting its feet tangled in the scenery. It's a pity, because the band sounded wonderful backstage. They ought to scrap the from part of the theatre and put the seats behind the band...
...bigger Liberty with a better reciprocating engine-which, however, cannot go into production until 1944. Possibly the present program of 200 C-type per year can be stepped up. But chances are that at war's end the U.S. will have to tie up and scrap many hundreds of merchantmen and start afresh, just as she did after World War I with the old Hog-Islanders. By that time the chances also are that the U.S. will want a far smaller (though infinitely better) merchant marine than her present...
Experience of the South Pacific war shows that the Jap is no superman and can be beaten. Osami Nagano can be beaten, but not without one hell of a scrap...
...Louis Post-Dispatch's editorial writer Ralph Coghlan and two friends were found innocent by a Jefferson City jury of conspiring last December to steal a cannon from the grounds of Missouri's capitol. Coghlan had wanted the cannon thrown on the war scrap pile, had been balked by Governor Forrest C. Donnell. "As I was saying last December when interrupted by the Governor's silly grand larceny charge," said Editor Coghlan: "I still think the old cannon, symbol of Mr. Donnell's hair-splitting incompetency, belongs on the nation's scrap pile...