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Since the overoptimistic plans made after the U.S. Army's dash to Paris, Home Front Czar Jimmy Byrnes has determinedly kept the lid on talk of reconversion after V-E day. But last week, as U.S. soldiers whisked across the Rhine, the lid popped off. Out boiled a spate of reports that simmered down to one fact: if the war in Europe should end soon, reconversion would be confusion...
...conference room the second session grew so stormy that the Archbishop adjourned the meeting before blows were struck. From the spate of tempestuous talk emerged only one point of unanimity: Archbishop Damaskinos was acceptable to all parties as Regent. But George II of Greece, waiting in London's swank Claridge's, must not delay his consent...
...Assassination." The last seven days spewed forth a spate of name-calling rancor. Sidney Hillman said that a Dewey victory would be a "national catastrophe"; John Bricker charged that Communists now control the Democratic party. The New York Daily News thought it "fair to surmise that [Roosevelt] is even now hoping to have one of his sons succeed him as King of the United States...
...native Chamorro, last week was elbow-deep again in his remarkable career. He serves as health officer and sole civilian doctor for the island's 20,000 natives. His head quarters are two thatch-roofed hospitals where he and a dozen nurses, locally-trained, treat the usual spate of tropical diseases and Guam's chief scourges, tuberculosis and trachoma (an eye infection...
...Weaker Sex. Stranger still was a spate of stories about women snipers fighting for the Germans. Said General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, commander of Allied Ground Forces in France: "There were a number of stout-hearted women snipers who were killed doing their stuff...