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...Fleet had just ended its two-year vigil in the Pacific by a cruise down the West Coast and a mimic attack on Panama Bay. Thousands of officers and men were on shore leave, pending a leisurely fortnight's "fleet march" through the Canal, when Admiral David Foote Sellers, Fleet Commander, suddenly decided: "The presence of the Fleet at the Canal . . . presents an excellent opportunity to execute a movement involving rapid transit such as might be necessary in case of emergency...
...Brooklyn, neighbors found Mrs. Delia Tully, 73, keeping solitary vigil beside her four-day dead husband-"just waiting." In Kapuskasing, Ontario, neighbors found the three orphan children of Henry Myllmaa keeping solitary house, their father's corpse in the summer kitchen. Explained the children: "Father's been dead six weeks...
...modernistic musical score for the Harvard Dramatic Club's spring play, "A Bride for the Unicorn" by Dennis Johnston, will be composed by Vigil Thompson, former director of the Harvard Glee Club, and one of America's foremost modern composers...
...Three Forks, Mont., when a farmer complained that his cows were being milked by marauders at night, deputy sheriffs kept watch. Their vigil was rewarded when the complainant appeared in his nightgown, milked his own cows, threw the milk to his sleeping pigs, somnambulated back...
...that those in authority have decided that in lieu of the vanished pomps of yesteryear, the public is at least entitled to a few good belly laughs and for this reason are relaxing their vigil over our entertainment. If we can't afford to be decadent we can at least have our humor more rudimentary. There are abounding proofs that standards are becoming more liberalized. "Hot Pepper," a McLaglon-Lowe comedy coming to the University Theatre in the near future, is a good case in point...