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Ruby in the Swamp...
Insurance. Very few policies now outstanding have war clauses; should an insured draftee go to war, be killed, his beneficiaries could collect just as though he died naturally. But if prospective draftees suddenly swamp insurance offices (or the U. S. goes to war), insurance companies will insert war clauses, jump rates. A few insurance companies are already doing so. Should war clauses become commonplace, they may read like the clause of Equitable Life: no payment for 1) death from any cause while in service outside the U. S. (unless in U. S. armed forces); 2) death as a result...
...swamp, the convicts still held out. On the morning of the second day, the convicts in the swamp sent Voncille out to bargain with the posse. They would not harm Gladys and Jerry if a car would be sent in for them, the doors open, to show that no police were hiding in it. The police refused. Shaky, but still keeping her nerve, Voncille led them to the fugitives' hideout-but after three of the convicts surrendered, and Gladys and Jerry were released, she collapsed with Gladys...
...Large fires have broken out on either side of the Thames. . . . Everywhere smoke is arising. . . . The wind is driving a black veil across the slums of London's East End. . . . The German planes have dropped their bombs with the utmost precision. Like gnats over a swamp - so the fighters dance over the grey London fog. Everywhere the eye looks it sees Hurricanes and Spitfires. And, in between, the sharp contours of the Messerschmitts in chase...
Graves was the individual star of the win on Friday with a sub-par 71, while Cordingley, in defeat, was the low Harvard man Saturday. A driving rain all Saturday morning had turned the course into a veritable swamp...