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Show MISCELLANY: Vichy: The Paris-press, controlled by the Nazis, had sailed into Vichy for failure to live up to collaboration promises, and blamed the presence in the government of American Ambassador Am-bassador Leahy. Hollywood: Shots rang out on the estate of Irene Dunne, awakening the actress. She investigated. One of her armed guards had an argument argu-ment with another, shot him through the arm. Fort Slocum, N. Y.: The commanding com-manding officer got a letter from a private at a southern camp saying: "Sir, I wish to volunteer in a suicide squad. I am now in a laundry unit which is non-combat. Just a chance is all I ask." Washington: Newsreel cameramen camera-men had 20 minutes in which to photograph Winston Churchill. They had planned to ask him to feed the White House squirrels. Instead he put on and took oft his "sirensuit," a coverall with zippered shoes which he can don in two minutes. They asked for no more. |