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That was in June 1944, at the height of World War II. This week in Chicago, the rusting, bullet-riddled submarine, the U-505, will be hauled to her final snug harbor at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, as a memorial to all the U.S. seamen who lost their lives at sea in World Wars I and II, and as a personal tribute to Rear Admiral Dan Gallery, the lean and leathery wartime skipper of the Guadalcanal...
...Incubus. Author Brophy is Londoner of Irish descent. At 24 she writes clean, cool English prose, shows a perceptive grasp of her material and has turned out a pointed and amusing little satire. Her last chapter, entitled "Soliloquy of an Embryo," follows the brief career of Edwina's "snug, smug self-sufficient little incubus." It is the kind of fantastic literary device that only a very competent and very serene writer could bring off. Author Brophy manages...
Working in Silence. On the big day of the show - the 20th anniversary of the Falange's founding-el Caudillo togged himself in the traditional black coat and snug red beret, and trod into the jam-packed stadium. The crowd exploded in a rhythmic roar: FRAN Co FRAN Co FRAN Co FRAN Co! From a lofty dais, Franco hailed the party: "There is no substitute for the Falange! Only by the continued impetus of the Falange can we guarantee the future of Spain." He candidly explained why the Falangists had been kept under wraps since...
Away in the rolling hills of Upper New York State, tucked snug in an atmosphere of Republican politics and masculine comeradie, is Colgate University...
...that there must be some great plan or some carefully dovetailed set of plans . . . that is bound to save everybody. Thus there have been waves of enthusiasm for religion as a purely social code, for religion as a distant other-worldly law. and for religion as a sort of snug little hot-water bottle carried in everybody's vest pocket...