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...True Hearts. A few things were not so grim. Newspapers reported with wonderment the case of a young Osaka worker employed by the U.S. Army. He had been hit by a tram and seriously injured. Three U.S. corporals called on him in the hospital, offered to pay his medical expenses. His family was "overcome with the sense of true-heartedness of the Allied soldiers...
...through having to exclude the long-ago, the whole gradual development of Apley from a human bus into a human tram, that the play falls short of the book-in irony, humanity, completeness. But greatly enlivening the plotless story and largely static portraiture are a continuing comedy of Back Bay manners, the incidental commotion of Cousin Hattie's tombstone and the best of the rather too recurrent laughs about Harvard or New York. Despite the laughs, the Apleys in the play show traces of New York blood in their veins-just enough, while slightly clouding the tone, to quicken...
This served to point a finger at Ernie King's old-line left-hand man, Vice Admiral John S. McCain, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air), who now has nearly 750,000 airmen serving under him. Said he: the Navy had to tram near the coast, but the Army's "abandoned" airfields were nearly all inland; the Army would let them to the Navy only temporarily. The Committee accepted his explanation, with reservations...
...cold, frosty dawn broke over Moscow while the stars slowly died out. Automobiles, busses and tram cars already fill the streets with life, but now for the fourth day this is a different life from the one we ' were used to when Moscow was not only the heart of Russia and the most beautiful city, but also the cradle of all that is best in the Russian genius. Moscow has taken to arms. Moscow is preparing to fight...
...tram traveling 80 miles an hour overtakes another train traveling 60 miles an hour on the same track, is that, I ask you, any kind of a way to run a railroad...