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...Scott is an author second and a newspaperman first. The last three years he was in Russia he worked for the New York Times, the sober London News Chronicle, the French news agency Havas-worked for them almost too zealously, it seems, because just two weeks before the German invasion he was kicked out of the Soviet Union for telling too much a little too soon. (He tipped the news that all was not well between Hitler and Stalin in a series of articles smuggled across the border by "rabbits"-traveling diplomats who mailed the stories to his newspaper from...
...usual there is one carefree pilot who has to combat the dislike of his companions, sober up after causing the death of a conscientious man, and finally redeem himself by a glorious death while on a dangerous volunteer mission. This time the flyer is John Carroll, who does a better-than-average job with the part, but it doesn't make much difference because the idea is so hackneyed by now. On hand also to fill a necessary part of the old triangle is nurse and war worker Anna Lee. Her heart belongs to the handsome squadron commander, John Wayne...
...down the land came hours of great but sober rejoicing. The news crowded everything else out of the papers; poured forth from the radio; in all the land there was hardly another topic of conversation. The nation's urge for action and attack was fulfilled; to many an American it seemed that this moment marked the turning point...
Soviet Russia celebrated its 25th anniversary as it did its first-with enemy armies deeply entrenched in Russian soil. But in a sober speech honoring the anniversary last week, grim-faced Joseph Stalin voiced his faith in victory. Said...
Here the stocky, sober Republican from South Dakota paused and looked around the Senate. His colleagues were listening indifferently. Their arguments were fixed, their minds made up: they were going to pass (58-10-5) the bill lowering the draft age to 18-but they were also going to pass (39-to-31) Democrat W. Lee O'Daniel's amendment that 18- and 19-year-olds must have a year's training before going to battlefronts abroad...