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...toted cases of liquor aboard, made the lives of Negro stewards miserable; got off the dirty-joke ship "news" paper which must have startled Russia's silent correspondent A. M. Khoklov, a captain in the Soviet navy. Baldwin's recommendation: a permanent accreditation committee of newsmen, to weed out the unfit...
...they have acted in everything from Dostoevsky to Noel Coward, from high drama to sheer drivel. They have long been the most famous stage couple in the world-and year in, year out, probably the best box office. On the road, even when it had dwindled into a weed-choked path, they have never slipped. A week before O Mistress Mine opened on Broadway, it had a prodigious advance sale...
...camps, CWS prepared a toxoid against botulism, a form of food poisoning which it was feared the Germans might use in Normandy. It developed antibiotics and therapeutic agents against another mysterious, unnamed disease. It discovered a chemical agent to destroy crops (which will have a peacetime use as a weed killer). In an allied project the Navy worked out a plan to spread fatal organisms by mist...
...junta promised to step down when a new President is chosen by popular vote next spring. Meantime they were busy with plans to turn the income from Venezuela's fabulous oil wealth to the people's account through low-cost housing and better social security, and to weed out the grafters from previous regimes...
...lusty Windsor itself, across the river from Detroit, things were even worse. First, a lonely, tipsy man was stabbed and critically wounded on a deserted street for no reason that police could find. Several days later the stabbed body of a mechanic was found in a weed-grown field. Then, within 150 yards of the same spot, the body of Canadian Sergeant Hugh Blackwood Price was found; he, too, had been knifed. Next, a night watchman at a Windsor garage was brutally clubbed to death with a hammer, apparently by would-be robbers...