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...sergeant and his family for $50 a month. There was no bath, no toilet, no water. When a rat bit off the index finger of the sergeant's six-month-old baby, the landlady refused to let the sergeant's wife use her telephone to summon...
...bottom was a single recommendation: the President should summon General MacArthur from the Pacific to get his views on the matter; "all other political and military personages should be excluded from this conference...
...novel's pungent brew of harshly realistic detail, extravagant melodrama, sordid depravity and sentimental warmth. Between the dreary, bare-brick expanse of the parish workhouse where Oliver begins life as an orphan and the elegant Brownlow mansion where he finally takes his rightful place, the settings and costumes summon up all but the smells of Britain's lower depths in the early 1800s: "the cold, wet, shelterless midnight streets of London; the foul and frowsy dens, where vice is closely packed and lacks the room to turn; the haunts of hunger and disease; the shabby rags that scarcely...
...Hasty Heart. In Seattle, angered by a trolley motorman who forgot to call out her stop, a woman passenger 1) beat him with her umbrella, 2 ) followed him to a telephone and yanked it off the wall when he tried to summon help, 3) pelted him with canned goods from her shopping bag, 4) smashed the window of another trolley when its motorman refused to let her board...
Defense Secretary George Marshall last week ground out a policy order intended to stop college men from tossing away their books in mid-year and pounding down to the recruiting station. Gist of the new policy: while local draft boards can still summon college men for pre-induction physicals, that summons will no longer mean that a man has lost the right to pick his service. From now on (so long as the Air Force and Navy continue to have "openings"), any college man due to be drafted can pick his service right up to the last month...