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Must we hate the enemy to win the war? That debate was going on, hotly and heavily, in the New York Times. The affirmative had been opened by Rex Stout, bewhiskered detective story writer, chairman of the Writers' War Board, with an article called We Shall Hate, or We Shall Fail...
...Austell was wakened at 3 a.m. by muffled cries for help from outside, ran to his front yard, still heard the cries but saw no one, traced the sound to the gutter, heard a man's voice groaning deep in the earth. Police called by Austell found a stout, elderly drunk lost in the sewer, led him out through the entrance five blocks away...
These startling statistics were headlined last week by the newspaper PM, which stated that it backed them with a study made by OPA. Run with a cartoon showing a stout gentleman in a frock coat with an American flag in one hand and a bag of money in the other, the figures purported to be a damning indictment of the U.S. business profiteer...
...office next day, Dr. McGregor found congratulatory letters and telegrams. He was embarrassed to note that many came from stout political conservatives. Known as a liberal for many years, Dr. McGregor hoped that in urging the church away from politics he was not aiding political conservatism...
...Headed for Home. In a few minutes we were almost directly over the Salween gorge. As we crossed, Stout opened for the last time on the west bank of the river, spraying the hillside with fire to let the Chinese troops on the east bank know that their allies up above were helping...