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Major Patrick Pole-Carew, 33, late of His Majesty's Irish Guards, came home one night in January 1946 and found his wife, Sonia, 30, in bed with her riding master, Thomas Chisman, 44. "I did not waken them," Pole-Carew said last week, "but went to my own bed and had a good night's sleep...
...Detroit, the Tigers were long on pitching, led by Hal Newhouser; long on hitting (if cocky Slugger Dick Waken eld hit the way he talked, he would lead the league). But the Tigers had a sieve for an infield...
With wisps of Axis battle smoke all but drifting across India's borders from Russia and Thailand, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and his recently released companions in civil disobedience began to waken from their prison apathy and make concessions to the logic of events. Effective as Mahatma Gandhi's passive-resistance technique may have been against the relatively civilized British, its potential worth against enemy tanks and bombers appeared questionable...
Finally, one day last week, Dr. Martin R. Hoffman, psychiatrist from a nearby hospital, announced: "She will wake up tomorrow, because in repeated conversations all around her she has constantly heard it said it is the Lord's will that she waken on that day [the seventh]. If I had been able to convince her today that it was the day, or that we were alone in the room, she probably would have awakened immediately...
...morning, as was my daily custom, I went to the Palace and into the sleeping quarters of the President at 5:15 to waken him for his daily exercise, massage and bath; and told him that Armando Andre had been shot a few hours before by "sawed-off" shot guns, through an open window in a house opposite his home, as he was trying to get his latch-key into the keyhole, which was jambed full of cut-off tooth picks. Machado exclaimed "No! That can't be true! It is not possible! Did you see it?" I replied...