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Bagpipes skirled as Canadian soldiers paraded "somewhere in Belgium" last week. While silk-hatted Belgian functionaries looked on, Britain's Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery pinned decorations on 60 Canadian officers and men. Over a loudspeaker, "Monty" said that the victory in the Battle of the Scheldt Estuary, fought largely by Canadian infantrymen, was "magnificent." He doubted that any other troops could have accomplished...
...would have no silk ; you cannot tell when it is clean." Boswell asked if he might have a job in this strange establish ment. "Yes, sir," roared the doctor. "Properly dressed you would, make a splendid eunuch." Often he took whatever side of an argument promised the most fireworks. When fashionable friends philosophized on the virtues of poverty, Johnson flew into a Tory rage. When someone suggested that poor criminals were better off in not having to suffer the ignominy of public executions, he flared up on the other side: "No, sir, executions are intended to draw spectators...
...Even in the Air Corps we call an airplane a ship or a plane, and we do not "rev her up," we only run up the engines and fly around hoping we won't be "jumped by the Nips, shot down in flames and have to hit the silk...
Died. Dr. Alexis Carrel, 71, French master surgeon and scientific philosopher (Man the Unknown), 1912 Nobel Prize winner for suturing blood vessels and transplanting living organs, collaborator with Charles Lindbergh on the "mechanical heart''; of prolonged heart trouble; in France. Son of a Lyons silk merchant, chunky, bald, beret-wearing Carrel could reputedly thrust his thumb & index finger inside a matchbox, tie a catgut knot impossible to undo with two hands. In nearest-complete secrecy, he experimented in his black-toned, dustless Manhattan laboratories, later on isolated St. Gildas Isle off France. A wit, connoisseur, inspired but abstemious...
...rape, four of cruelty to animals, five of reckless driving in congested areas. Countries ravaged by Hitler demanded the return of their looted property. They got it promptly: Austria received 198,371 Tyrolean hats, Russia got 16 Ukrainian ikons, France 1,835 empty champagne bottles and a heap of silk stockings full of runs...