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...South America much speculation. The week before, Foreign Minister Gabriel Turbay of Colombia, likewise visiting Washington, had confirmed a report that his nation was negotiating with Russia for an exchange of diplomatic representatives. Venezuela and Ecuador were also considering the step. Russia, unrecognized in Latin America until last autumn (when Cuba and Mexico took the plunge), was becoming known south of the Rio Grande...
...autumn's fair weather there had been nights and days when a small raid or two and the endless slashing of Allied intruder aircraft against Germany's overstrained transport system were only pallid proofs that "Red" Harris intended to make good. But now, in January, when the winter was at its worst, the raids came hot, heavy and without cease. Perhaps, at long last, this was the promised beginning...
...employer had a hundred pretexts, a thousand occasions. In summer it was the seaside, in autumn hunting, then the winter sports. He took a week here, a month there. The employe looked on and drew his own conclusions...
Milton Caniff is a youngish (34) comic strip artist whose Terry and the Pirates is popular (23,000,000 subscribing readers in some no civilian papers) partly because it is filled with lusciously sculptured ladies who move sensuously against a background of Oriental intrigue. In the early autumn Artist Caniff started drawing in spare time a special, once-a-week, superluscious Terry for Army newspapers. Said Artist Caniff: "I beamed it to the Army, in Army lingo. The boys like it sharp and lusty...
...records show very little activity during the first eight months of the organization's existence. When it got under way during the following autumn, Archibald MacLeish had left, the Faculty members had become mere names on the Workshop stationery, and a nucleus of three undergraduates remained to carry out that high purpose of experimenting in forms of radio broadcasting...