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First Stab at Trondheim. The narrow, rutted roads were knee-deep in late-April slush. German bombers and attack ships roared low over the pinetops. From southeast of Steinkjer, smashing echoes rolled into the mountains from the guns of German destroyers and a pocket battleship (probably the Liitzow) bottled up in Beitstad Fjord, as the Germans moved them up to support their land forces...
...Expeditionary Force near its beachhead at Namsos, Norway (see p. 22). Mr. Stowe wrote, in indignation, of two advance battalions of raw British troops, without artillery, antiaircraft, supporting planes or even white sheets to camouflage themselves, who were "dumped into Norway's deep snows and quagmires of April slush ... to fight crack German regulars-most of them veterans of the Polish invasion-and to face the most destructive of modern weapons. ... A major military blunder which was not committed by their immediate command, but in London...
...clean shirt on can beat Guffey." Ex-Mayor McNair had no chance. Behind Walter Jones was David L. Lawrence, State Democratic chairman. Mr. Lawrence has been withdrawn from the political scene for four months, while undergoing two trials on charges of conspiracy to shake down State employes for slush funds, and political blackmail...
...emotions, for me "toujours I'approche intellectuelle au sujet" (always the intellectual approach for any subject). For instance, I am ravished by the celestial ninths which J. C. Higginbotham (Higgy to his friends, among whom I am proud to say I am numbered) plays on that good old slush-pump, and I am not alone in believing that Artie Shaw heaves a mean tonic triad...
Illinois. As police searched for the "little black book"-slush fund record kept by the late F. Lynden Smith (TIME, March 18)-Illinois Labor's Non-Partisan League threw its claimed 200,000-vote strength to Term III, thus defying C. I. Oligarch John L. Lewis...