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Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr.'s novel-writing wife Beatrice (Blood of The Shark) disclosed that she had been getting poems from her hell-roaring husband, read a couple at Boston's annual Authors Club dinner. In the Woman's Home Companion appeared a Patton so-called poem, God of Battles. Opening quatrain...
...Shark-mouthed Publisher Frank Gan nett and carp-eyed Publisher Colonel Robert R. McCormick share two fierce emo tions : hatred of Franklin Roosevelt, a conviction that New Deal "bungling" in agriculture will cause starvation in the U.S. Last week, in Bertie McCormick's Chicago bailiwick, the two joined in an emotional spree, airing their fears in a joyous catharsis of rich gloom...
...edge of a coral reef which held the thin mahogany plywood hull like a bear trap. Jap fire was creeping closer. The youthful skipper ordered men to destroy secret devices and papers, gave the word to abandon ship. One enlisted man was killed on deck; the others swam through shark-infested waters to safety aboard another U.S. vessel...
...Portland, Ore., to Portland, Me., is he against war and he will say Yes, sure. Sure he's against war. Even smack in the midst of a war that is being won, war in the abstract, war in the future, is about as popular as the man-eating shark. Sure he's against...
...General Chennault gave Scott a P-40-"the single fighter plane that was to work out of Assam." Scott had its nose painted with the shark's head emblem: "I don't know how long I walked around the fighter admiring it and caressing its wicked-looking body . . . as if I were rolling old sherry around on my tongue. . . . Like a beautiful woman, it demanded constant attention." At last, with his plane's shark mouth "seeming to drip saliva," he went out for action...