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Most highly organized are the British officers' camps in Germany. One typical camp has a library of 16,000 books; courses in 70 different subjects, including 23 foreign languages, all taught by prisoners; regular self-staged theatrical and musical shows; flower and vegetable gardens; painting; woodwork; a sports program; bridge drives, spelling bees and debates. "One debate," reports Y-man Strong, "was: 'Resolved, That in the opinion of this house it would be better to be married to Ginger Rogers than to Mrs. Beaton' [the British Fanny Farmer...
...afternoon, people gathered at the funeral home in South St. Louis. It was much like any other American funeral parlor, with stippled walls and dark-painted woodwork, and the sick-sweet smell of wreaths and flowers. There, in a steel casket, the flag draped over, lay the body of Otto J. Weiner Jr., private in the Marines, killed in action on an unnamed Pacific island. American Legionnaires stood guard. A Lutheran pastor spoke the eulogy, said the prayer...
Despite the accident, passengers crowded aboard. Shreve had brought not only practical steamboating to the Mississippi. He had brought luxury. The President was "finished with the finest woodwork and mirrors . . . meals equaled those of the best hotels and were served with much formality." In "the commodious bar," most of the conversation was about what the steamboat monopoly would do to Captain Shreve when he got to New Orleans...
...Lady of Kearny Street" went out of business last week. Closed was the powerful bail-bond firm of McDonough Bros., which had flourished for 50 years in San Francisco. The building-in the shadow of the Hall of Justice (police courts)-still has the cupid-festooned ceilings, mahogany woodwork and silver spittoons of the days when it was a saloon. San Franciscans believe it was the first bail-bond firm in the U.S. It was without a doubt the most notorious business house in San Francisco...
Three photographers crawled precariously out on a ledge, 40 feet above the floor, for angle shots. (First Citizen: "My God, they're coming out of the -woodwork.") The talk rose in speculation about Willkie's future ("The Administration will ignore him, and so will the Republicans in Congress"-The New Republic), and about his relationship with the President who had defeated him ("The aim of the Roosevelt-Willkie-Bullitt combination ... is for a joint British-American war against the Soviet Union"-Daily Worker). But in a Washington that is far more conscious of politics than...