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...might show a curious profit after all. As a result of fund appeals by the Tractors for Freedom Committee, the Detroit post office was showered with 60,000 pieces of mail. When negotiations bogged down (TIME, June 30), the committee ordered the letters returned. So far, 56,000 that bore return addresses have been sent back unopened, and the committee will never know how much money it actually collected. The remaining letters have been sent to the dead letter office to be opened by postal employees. If the contents contain a clue to the sender, they will be returned...
...three comedies Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night. These plays got progressively better. Significantly, the strength of Much Ado lies in the characters the playwright did not get from his source: Beatrice, Benedick, Dogberry and his watch. The derived matter is still a bore...
...meat grinder, let the bait drift down-current; soon he had five sharks gliding gracefully around him. A 7-ft. dusky shark broke slowly away from his companions and hovered near the skindiver. Suddenly, maddened by the scent of ground ray, the shark flicked his powerful tail and bore down on Slaughter, jaws agape. The shark killer grasped his powerhead's shaft and drove the weapon against the onrushing shark's head, shattering its brain...
...some Washington observers, it seemed singularly inappropriate to entertain a friendly Japanese dignitary aboard a ship, even if the ship's name happened to be the Honey Fitz and not the U.S.S. Missouri. To other Washingtonians, any sort of Potomac cruise just seemed like a big bore. Asked one wag: "What's duller than a boat ride down the Potomac?" The answer: "The boat ride back...
...West today is Thomas' account of the international brigades and the hallucinatory propaganda that surrounded them. Sixty thousand young Europeans (mostly French, but 2,800 Americans and 2,000 British were among them) fought in the international brigades or otherwise served the Republican cause. Their battalions bore honored national names-"Abraham Lincoln," "Masaryk" or "Garibaldi." They may or may not (Thomas is unsure) have saved Madrid's civilians-in-arms from Franco's 20,000-man besieging army, but whatever their effectiveness in battle, the brigades were an international showpiece. Also, except for the Communists among them...