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...from uncontrollable fits of laughter and bordering on insanity, he met his future wife Gala (then wife of Surrealist Poet Paul Eluard). To impress the Eluards, Dali decided to get himself up "very elaborately." He tore his best silk shirt to shreds, shaved his armpits so deep that they bled, transferred blood to other parts of his body, turning his bathing trunks inside out, placed an enormous red geranium behind one ear, a pearl necklace round his neck, and finally smeared his whole body with a mixture of goat dung and aspic. From this there emerged, says Dali, "Miracle...
...shouted, and out of the crowd came 30 men similarly armed. In an Armenian toy shop glass splintered. Bricks and clubs flew through the air, smashed other windows. Out of a radio store phonograph records came sailing high into the night. Jewelry stores, rug stores, department stores were quickly bled of all the goods that could be carried. Looters tore down the street in both directions as they got what they wanted...
Finland has one of World War II's most difficult diplomatic positions to maintain. Internally her fighting strength is being bled white by two wars in three years. Her economy is disrupted by blockade, her people dissatisfied. Letters from1 soldiers complain of German pressure at home, bad food and living conditions. Some are bitter over wives and sweethearts consorting with German soldiers...
...latter a manifest impossibility, since he must pay heavy Treasury taxes on any new lump sums he now earned. Not many tears fell. Millions, had wanted to know whether the young Irish sharpshooter could cut down the great Bomber. Only a few of the more emotional sportswriters bled much in print, and up rose no wave of public indignation. The U.S. as a whole had learned another lesson: you cannot hold on to the peacetime pleasures, even under the name of Army Emergency Relief-which, incidentally, didn't need the money anyway...
...Army, but he had equal reason to fear that the German Juggernaut, as in France, could not be stopped until too many wellsprings of Russian oil, iron and food supplies had been lost, too many waterways and railroads had been cut, too many Russian soldiers had bled to death on the southern steppes. The next few weeks would tell...