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...stage, he had set down some ideas on the subject. He would 1) keep the present system except for x, c and q; 2) eliminate the neutral second vowels found in such words as colour, labour and honour; 3) substitute "unambiguous symbols" for the consonant combinations sh, zh, wh, th, dh, ng; also for the vowel-consonant combinations ah, aw, at, et, it, of, ut, oot, yoot...
Three Martinis. Something similar, though on a smaller scale, was happening simultaneously to a score of other French authors. The Prix Femina had gone to Serge Groussard for his La femme sans passé, a grim story of a murderess' flight on a river barge; the Prix Théophraste Renaudot to Pierre Molaine (in real life Major Léopold Faure, tank officer in the French army) for his Les orgues de I'enfer, a story about a resistance fighter hiding from the Gestapo in an insane asylum. The fourth big prize, the Prix Interalli...
Three weeks ago something akin t panic spread through Sun Life's Montreal citadel ("Largest office building in th British Empire"). Montreal's financial district in St. James Street buzzed with rumors that the Aliens and allied U.S speculators had gobbled up 35% of Sun Life's stock. Out to Sun Life's Canadian stockholders went frantic telephone pleas from company officers not to sell, to "keep this fine old Canadian company Canadian." At the Dominion Insurance Office's behest, Canadian Finance Minister Douglas Abbott took one step to repel the invaders. He announced last...
...still marches to the tune of Garry Owen, a drinking song whose lilting melody strongly resembles The Campbells Are Coming. Custer, then a lieutenant colonel of cavalry, chose Garry Owen as the regimental march of the ?th soon after the regiment was organized in 1866, heard it for the last time just before the 7th rode off in 1876-to massacre by Chief Crazy Horse's Sioux on the Little Big Horn...
...halls in planning meals. Perhaps this could be accomplished by regular meetings of dining hall supervisors; trade secrets, after all, have no place intramurally. Maybe new ideas could be discovered from outside sources. A major reorganization of the central kitchen is unfortunately too expensive at the moment; imagination is th only short-range solution...