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...Dada." Her parting shot, on leaving the U.S. in 1935 (with her longtime secretary-companion, Alice B. Toklas): "I won't be sorry to come back when I do come back if I do come back." In France many a G.I. got to know Gertrude Stein, stirred anew her interest in the U.S., gave her the stuff for her last book, Brewsie and Willie (see BOOKS...
Retail inventories were finally building up. As their shelves filled again, merchants anxiously gauged the size of the demand anew. Last week M. E. Coyle, new G.M. executive vice president, seemed to be voicing the anxiety of all industry, not merely of auto manufacturers, when he said: "We will catch up with the pent-up demand more quickly than many think...
...Charles II, the "Merry Monarch," tore himself away from his mistresses long enough to consider the stars. They must be, he decided, "anew observed, examined and corrected, for the use of his seamen." Forthwith he commanded "our trusty and well-beloved Sir Christopher Wren, Knight" to build "a small observatory within our park at Greenwich . . . with all convenient speed." Those were bargain days. Sir Christopher tore down a gatehouse in the Tower of London and a fort at Tilbury. With the salvaged stone and timber, and with ?520 from the sale of old gunpowder, he ran up a building...
...fear had been sharpened anew last week by such varied signs of Russian aggressiveness as her pressure on Iran, and Manchuria (see FOREIGN NEWS), her continued use of Communists in other countries for Russian ends, and a strongly documented report from Vienna by New York Timesman John MacCormac on Russian tactics that had killed any early hope of restoring Austria's independence...
...Comrades! . . . We have to begin anew and to learn from our mistakes. . . . Which forces can we consider on our side? The still unorganized, suffering labor groups . . . part of the middle classes and the youth . . . part of the bourgeoisie which was cheated under the Nazi regime and is now afraid of being swallowed by American imperialism. All these forces must be combined for the struggle to reach the next partial goal, a democratic Germany...