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Third place in popularity, or just in a class by itself, was the roof overlooking the town. There was practically a waiting line here as Dean Stafford, Dick Rowles and others took more than a reasonable length of time hanging over the hard rails gazing at the view...
Forming for some weeks now is a vigilante committee to root out the piano players by Chase dining hall once and for all. Dean Stafford heads the party, while Johnny Sutton and Walt Terry are in charge of ropes and halters...
Reuters has demonstrated many times that it can provide tough competition: on such big wartime stories as General Wavell's appointment as Viceroy of India and Sir Stafford Cripps's resignation from the British War Cabinet, both of which were handled on a "hold for release" basis, Reuters inexplicably scored first. Now, by either hook or crook, Reuters had done it again. Looking at the past, U.S. newsmen looked at their future prospects for Government-controlled news with foreboding...
...Cabinet changes indicated a calculated swing to the moderate right. Winston Churchill passed over Laborites like ambitious Herbert Morrison, crotchety leftist Sir Stafford Cripps, right-wing Tories like Samuel Hoare (see p. 38). On the whole, Britons approved the shifts, decided that Churchill felt strong enough to swing the country behind his kind of Conservatives now and after...
...fine specimen of young English manhood, with a more enquiring turn of mind than is sometimes found among those who have emerged from the valley of the shadow of middle-class education." When his adventures begin, he has just been listening, in his mess, to a broadcast by Sir Stafford Cripps on What We Are Fighting For. Sir Stafford said we are fighting to make a better and happier world. The Young Soldier thinks that is very nice, wonders how it is to be brought about. He decides to collect his thoughts during a walk. Out of the bosky underbrush...