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SOMEWHERE AT SEA, May 12 (Delayed)--"Titanic" was the word used by Admiral Cummer von Bund to describe the annual CRIMSON-Lampoon war games run off today. In the midst of battle, her decks awash, her superstructure stove in, the U.S. aircraft carrier Lexington sank beneath the foam carrying those aboard to a watery bier. "I never thought she'd go down," murmured Able Bodied Seaman Donald Crestfallen...
...University a month ago because of illness, was found dead yesterday in his apartment on Chauncy Street in Cambridge. Police said that William L. MacDonald 1G discovered Harris with a Navy type gas mask covering his face. A hose connected the mask to a jet in the kitchen stove from which gas was flowing...
Dismissal. In Memphis, revenuers, running down a moonshine tip, lost their case when the evidence-a gallon jug hidden in a stove-exploded under their noses...
...like your spicy lingo, and I reckon that regulars figure out the initialese (G.O.P., EGA, etc.). It's fairly easy now to follow Big John with his sidekicks in a souped-up Caddy to the hot-stove-league ball game at the jampacked Rose Bowl . . . I could creep into a flophouse, speakeasy, hot-spot or crap-joint with a pretty clear idea of what I'd be in there for. And although I admit that there are times when I could cheerfully hospitalize your typewriter-pecking hoodlums with a double whammy from Fowler's English Usage...
Many of the newspaper ads are for cheap food. One such, with a picture of an attractive housewife at her stove, is for "Moscow Meatballs." The Russians have developed soybean food substitutes for flour, cheese and kefir (fermented milk), and these are plugged frequently, along with Kabul, a soya sauce for meats. "Soya cheeselets," the ads say, "available sweet with currants to commercial enterprises. Cost four times less than animal-produced cheeses...