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...friendship of the French people toward America has suffered considerable deterioration this week as it has become known in Algiers that President Roosevelt intends to leave it to General Dwight D. Eisenhower to select the French political groups with whom to cooperate after liberation of French soil...
...Architectural Review, Britain's No. 1 architectural magazine, recently declared that the ruins of Britain's bombed churches are more eloquent war monuments than any that could be dreamed up after the war. It proposed to select from the country's 4,000 blitzed churches a few in London and other British cities "to remain with us as ruins, essentially in the state in which bombing has left them...
...late autumn of 1941 a select group of British naval men, volunteers for a mission of danger and hardship, proceeded to a lonely country house and began a strange program of training...
...frustrated American males last night came relief in the form of a Newark draft board, which dourly foureffed America's big noise of the year, a loved-up character known as Frank Sinatra to most and Oooooofrankie to a select few who poured over $6,000 in the till of the R.K.O. Boston last week when crooner Sinatra came to sample of the bean...
...rivers of six per cent beer and small talk that ranges from post war planning to post mortems on the current collapse of the Nazis, compose, rewrite, and assemble news stories up to that awful time known throughout the profession as the deadline. In order to join the select company of Hu Flung Huey, Michael Mullins, and others, candidates will go through a six week competition in which they must prepare to acquire the scent for news, follow the elusive vapor to its source, and report the results in readable prose...