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...Upshot of Captain Fuller's plea is a moving radio program called Tell It to the Marines beamed for 15 minutes, five times a week, to all the South Pacific. In addition to news, tunes and scuttlebutt (gossip), the Marines are reached direct with messages from home. Samples...
...prints the civilian Terry in that area under an exclusive contract with the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate, protested. The Herald had no objection to a Terry run in Army papers; it did object to having a Terry, especially a superspecial eye-filling Terry, as a civilian competitor. Upshot was the News Syndicate, mindful of its contracts, asked Artist Caniff to stop doing special Army strips until the muddle was untangled...
...Upshot was that Finston, who has no Polish blood and speaks not a Polish word, wrote to the Polish Embassy at Washington, applied for a Polish Army commission. Last week he prepared to set out for Scotland, to be a lieutenant with the Poles. His program: learn the ropes, then transfer to the Near East to do public-relations work, color blindness...
...upshot was that the Senate upheld the censors 34-to-2. Meanwhile the censors were feverishly banning not only cheap pornography but such books as Pearl Buck's Dragon Seed, one edition of Baedeker, the essays of William Ralph Inge, longtime "Gloomy Dean" of St. Paul's, and five bedtime stories. They also clamped down on most of the tales of the most distinguished Irish novelists, including Liam O'Flaherty...
Last week he took matters into his own hands. While planting some locust trees in his garden he discussed the cannon with a tree surgeon, one Sidney Stearns. Ralph Coghlan said he was "very serious" about wanting those cannon on the scrap pile. Upshot: Arborist Stearns agreed to get a friend and remove the cannon; Editor Coghlan agreed to pay the expenses. Further upshot: when Stearns and. friend tried to uproot the cannon they were arrested. The case was suddenly complicated when police found a loaded revolver, a full can of gasoline and a sixth tire in Stearns...