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...years, at 2% interest, beginning in 1951. In addition, Canada canceled a whopping British debt: $425,000,000 incurred when Canada housed and trained British flyers during the war under the Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Moreover, Canada agreed to settle, for $150,000,000, all big & little "known & unknown" claims that resulted from an intermeshed war effort...
Wrote the A.P.'s Spencer Davis: "We were fired on by unknown snipers while inspecting a stripped textile mill." Cabled the New York Herald Tribune's A. T. Steele: "The Tommy gun is king, and you see it everywhere." The New York Post's Robert P. ("Pepper") Martin, usually willing to lean over backwards to give the Soviets a break, angrily reported a "studied and cynical 'freeze' against correspondents, who received treatment usually accorded spies or nationals of an unfriendly nation. . . . This correspondent walked through city streets after dark with chill fear gripping his stomach...
Buell S. Smith '49, supplementing O'Donnell's statement, said that he had contacted a musician by the name of Lennie Lewis, by long distance from Indianapolis. Lewis, said Smith, had admitted that he was "something of an unknown but up and coming," and that "Harvard publicity was worth...
...Forces considered the test successful. On Crossroads Day, it announced, it would fly four unmanned B-17s into the radioactive cloud above the atomic explosion, attempt to collect great bagsful of cloud matter. All the "drones" were considered expendable, for the cloud's effect upon planes was still unknown...
Outside of Boston, Carol Brice was not entirely unknown. The daughter of a North Carolina preacher, she first sang in Manhattan's Town Hall at 15, with a group of spiritual shouters. At the World's Fair, she was in the chorus of the all-Negro Hot Mikado. Says she: "They tried to make a Mae West out of me." Instead she enrolled at the long-haired Juilliard School of Music. Later she married Neil Scott, one of the "screamers" in Hot Mikado...