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Core of the month-long appeal came in a three-day period in the late third week, when Lowell House shot from $2,500 to $5,700 and the other Houses put on smaller spurts. Knight said that the drive has been "watched with great interest because of the lack of outside publicity." No jeeps, battleships, or one-fifty-five-millimeter shells were bought by College civilians--just bonds...
...enough to make a cat laugh. Old sea dogs were laughing too. But the sick citizens of nautical Norfolk, Va. could see nothing funny about a three-day fever followed by a cold, clammy feeling and nausea. They began getting it last month. The name with which Navy doctors dismissed the ailment-"cat fever"-gave Norfolk folks the creeps...
...48th annual convention of the National Association of Manufacturers assembled, 4,000 strong, at Manhattan's plush Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last week. For once, there were plenty of fireworks in the three-day session...
...days later the Big Three had moved on. Stalin unquestionably had gone back to Mother Russia. Early this week Roosevelt and Churchill turned up in Cairo to make big medicine with President Inönü of Turkey. Present also was the Russian Ambassador to Turkey. After a three-day pow-wow this new foursome issued a terse statement which spoke of "closest unity," "identity of interests" and "firm friendship...
Last week the new policy began to pay off. Reporters' eyewitness dispatches of the Gilberts offensive reached U.S. readers with only three-day delays. And for the first time names of units and commanders were promptly given...