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Somewhere in Africa a wandering N.Y. Times correspondent discovered a singularly unhappy soldier, Sergeant N. V Jerkovich, mail orderly to an air squadron. When there is no mail they threaten to shoot him; when mail comes, they threaten him because there isn't enough. On the rare occasions when there is enough, no one bothers to say anything. Finally he got some mail himself. His family was moving from Lorain, Ohio (where his girl lives), to California, so he would have plenty of fresh air and open spaces when he got home. Sergeant Jerkovich is now living...
...Harry Chandler's Los Angeles Times began to blaze. Late-afternoon editions printed black-faced leads about a purported anonymous call to headquarters: "We're meeting 500 strong tonight and we're going to kill every cop we see." The Hearst Herald & Express bannered: ZOOTERS THREATEN L. A. POLICE...
Bulky, sad-eyed, drawling Judge Vinson, 53, is a first-rate authority on the U.S. tax laws, which he can quote, provision by provision, with all the "hereinafters" properly included, in a dazzling display of mnemonics. As a Kentucky Congressman for 14 years, he rose so fast as to threaten the seniority system. His special technique is to arm himself with such a mastery of the facts at issue that he can gently but thoroughly demolish the opposition. A kind, solid and reassuring citizen, he became last week the best and most important new face in the Washington...
...doing international business at once on its initiative and responsibility, leaving long-term capital until later and to other agencies. The Keynes plan provides checks on both debtors and creditors and further provides means for applying gentle brakes to a debtor in danger of overextension. But it does not threaten the debtor with automatic raid and collapse, as the old gold standard often unfairly did. Yet without tying rigidly to gold, it does provide means whereby gold can be sold into those large and populous areas of Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Asia where people mistrusting paper money...
...will of the late Admiral was well known: to smash the U.S. From boyhood, when his father told him of the American barbarians who had come to Japan to threaten the Son of Heaven, Isoroku Yamamoto hated Americans...