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From the bridge of the aircraft carrier Illustrious last January Larry Allen got one of the best action stories of the war, when he (and the Illustrious) miraculously survived a savage, seven-hour attack of 50 Stukas and torpedo planes. Singed and blown down a hatchway, he stuck to the ship as it was bombed again at Malta. After that nervy feat of reporting, Rear Admiral Lyster declared that Allen was the "darling" of the British Mediterranean fleet...
...dinner, grey-clad and booted, Dictator Stalin regaled his guests with a seven-hour, ten-course meal including cold and hot zakuska (hors d'oeuvres), bowls of caviar, flagons of cognac and vodka, which many of the Russians chose to lace with red pepper. Thirty-one bottoms-up toasts were drunk (some guests hazily estimated 37); Dictator Stalin preferred cognac. Among those toasted were Major Alva Harvey and Lieut. Lou Reichers of the U.S. Army Air Corps, who had flown the U.S. delegates to Moscow. They received the Dictator's handshake...
After the seven-hour peace conference last week, Yale's Personnel Director R. Carter Nyman said "Yale appreciates the assistance of the State Board, and the attitude of the Union representatives throughout the negotiations. We are happy that the matter has been settled peacefully...
...seven-hour session, distracted by members rushing in & out to telephone for train reservations, to phone long-distance for the latest football scores, to rush into the chairman's inner office for a quick nip at a mysterious jug inside, the committee also struck out the guts of the enforcement system proposed...
...considered sacred to football games and cocktail parties, but the half-dozen Harvard men who trouped down to Cambridge Community Center last Saturday, where they were joined by students from Radcliffe, B. U., Wheaton, and Wellesley, broke firmly with the tradition of decorative idleness. They occupied themselves during a seven-hour day with c carpentering, painting, and doing odd jobs in the rambling, converted school building which houses Cambridge's only colored settlement, and they spent the evening discussing and planning future "Weekend Work Camps," urban and rural, for which they expected to recruit several times their number from colleges...