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Widely circulated in London was the account of an Australian officer in Crete, suggesting that the British Command had merely expected a "leisurely sea invasion." Said he: "We were having a nice sunbathing holiday till the Germans came. . . . A truck driver was telling my Colonel that he had seen men coming down by parachute 16 miles up the road. I did not believe...
When Mexican telephone companies recently upped monthly rates four pesos (80?), 1,000 subscribers in provincial Querétaro got so mad they lifted their receivers right off the hook-and left them off. Not till the rates came down again, said they, would they put back their receivers or pay their bills. Last week, local managers tore their hair trying to figure how to beat the strike...
...doctor has a cluttered office in the New York Academy of Medicine, where he works every day from 9 to 6, sometimes even till midnight. A garrulous telephoner, he waves the phone in the air as he talks. With his devoted wife, who died a few years ago, he used to take long hikes along the Hudson River Palisades, and wrote a New York Walk Book. He still chops wood, goes for long jaunts. A regular visitor at important medical meetings, Dr. Dickinson is usually seen with a pencil poised over a well-worn black notebook, looking intently...
...safe 'till everybody's dead...
...sportswriters, the most sentimental members of a notoriously softhearted craft, have blubbered over many a death before. Fortnight ago they had even wept a bit for Max Schmeling, till he turned out to be alive. But last week's outburst was an emotional flood the likes of which few oldtimers could remember. Only attempt to keep his feet in the pool of tears was made by onetime Sportswriter Westbrook ("Old Nasty") Pegler. Wrote he in the New York World-Telegram...