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—In Hunt, Tex., Dr. Pierre B. Hill received a letter offering condolence for the death of his son, David, a volunteer flyer with the Chinese Army. Dr. Hill investigated, unearthed what he took to be a Japanese campaign against U.S. morale. David Hill last week was very much alive.
— A pair of reporters of the Philadelphia Record, hearing of the shocking exploit of two British Security policemen who toured a London suburb in Nazi uniforms unmolested (TIME, Feb. 2), decided to see whether it could happen here. Dressed as German U-boat commanders, William B. Mellor Jr. and Frank Toughill wandered about downtown Philadelphia, talked German in a crowded automat, peering suspiciously at defense plants, asked a traffic cop questions in broken English. Only interest they aroused was from a small boy on roller skates. Said he: "Oh, boy! Join the Navy and see the world."