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...Blame for the humiliating and shameful disaster to the liner Normandie (renamed by the Navy the Lafayette) landed on the U.S. Navy with a thud last week. A House investigating committee declared: "The line of demarcation of the responsibility ...was much confused. ..." But the committee's outraged report put the blame on "Government representatives...
...headlong horsewoman followed Bolivar into Peru, spent two years with him while he was liberating that country and Bolivia. More than once she saved his life, for more & more jealous political and military rivals plotted against him. One night, while Bolivar was sleeping, Manuela heard steps, barking dogs, "the thud of a body in the street," shouts of "Death to the tyrant!" She persuaded the Liberator to jump out the window. When the assassins broke in, she met them with a drawn sword, sent them in the wrong direction. Said Bolivar: "Today you have become the Libertadora of the Libertador...
Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom hit Boston yesterday with a thud as of a rotten tomato and with odor to match. Poor gags, far-fetched puns, drawn-out dialogue, and a well-nigh non-existent plot combine to make "Harvard, Here I Come" as a rather tedious ordeal. Except for the local interest in Hollywood's presentation of what bodes ill to become its favorite subject, Harvard, the show is merely another low metabolism slapstick comedy...
...Philippines, behind Douglas MacArthur's embattled lines, mercurial little Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina was sworn in for his second term as President of the Philippine Commonwealth. From his underground refuge he could hear the muffled slam of big guns, the faint tattoo of antiaircraft fire, the soft thud of Japanese bombs falling on his land, his people...
...paper clips, everything small and bothersome came out of his watch pocket--but no dimes. He reached for his wallet and pulled out a dollar, then had to wait in line for the cashier. Just as they got through the turnstile, the subway's doors shut with a grim thud and it nosed down into the dark underground passage. They got the next one all right, but it was so filled that Vag couldn't get her a seat till after Charles Street. Then, when the eight minutes were up and the car jolted to a stop at Park...