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...were the best the Chinese had mustered since Hengyang (which withstood siege for 41 days). The city had miles of barbed wire entanglements; pillboxes fashioned from torndown buildings. It had the best fed, best armed, best uniformed soldiers remaining among China's tattered legions. For commander it had bald, white-gloved General Pai Chung-hsi, one of Kwangsi Province's best, fresh from talks with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. To aid Pai, General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell sent every ounce of U.S. small arms, mortars and ammunition that could be spared from the tonnage flown over the Hump...
Paper Profits. Brookings' 34-page report was prepared by Joseph Mayer, 57, a slender eyebrow-mustached economist-author (Bigger Men in Bigger Jobs, The Regulation of Commercialized Vice). As vith all Brookings reports, it was carefully scanned by bald, pudgy Harold G. Moulton, Institution president, and given a preface by way of approval...
...achieve. Where emotionalism usually buries the theme, here martial music and gaudy effect drive it home, and one is never allowed to forget that genuine patriotism was defeated by selfish individualism. That is the only idea that "Wilson" tries to convey. It never goes all the way and becomes bald internationalist propaganda, because it was not intended...
...Bald, icy-eyed Columnist Strunsky is the kind of newspaperman about whom no hit play or best-selling novel is likely to be written. He has never picked a lovenest lock, swiped a picture from a new widow, or solved a murder. Born in Russia and schooled in New York City from P.S. 77 through Columbia, he went to work as an editor of the New International Encyclopedia in 1900, aged 21. After six years he shifted to editorial writing for the New York Post, became its editor in 1920, moved on to the Times...
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, bald, bespectacled British humorist (Thank You, Jeeves; Quick Service, etc.) captured in France by the Nazis in 1940, was found alive & well in Paris' Hotel Bristol, eager to return to London to dispel the rumors that he had been a Nazi sympathizer.* He called his five broadcasts on the German radio in 1941 "a terrible mistake," explained that he intended them "in the spirit of the British soldier who spoke on the radio to get messages back home." Wodehouse said he was released from prison camp "mainly because I had reached the age of 60," then...