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...half-famished through the crags of the Pyrenees, stumbling over crests white with eternal snow (see cut). They straggled down the valleys, handed their guns to French frontier guards, entered refugee camps where there was no champagne or speckled trout, only spring water and stew dipped steaming from a bucket. Unsympathetic with these soldiers who had stopped fighting, pugnacious Novelist Ernest Hemingway filed a hard-boiled dispatch from Leftist Spain's sunny seacoast: "In the far north, under the shadow of the Pyrenees, General Franco's troops have advanced steadily north and eastward in a country where positions...
...year sentence for grand larceny, holding his substantial, six-foot-two figure erect and his chin lifted, Mr. Whitney-Prisoner No. 94,835-displayed such extreme fortitude that it seemed at times like a pose. He was assigned to a tiny, damp, malodorous cell whose only plumbing was a bucket and he asked for no favors. But deference, curiosity and admiration were apparent all around him. Prisoners loitered in his path, hoping to exchange a few words...
After last night's practice, Coach Caspar Crusher expressed satisfaction at the team's improvement. "The boys are coming along fine," he said. "That Radcliffe match was just a drop in the bucket; we're really pointing for Wellesley...
...centre of the garage, into which rain dripped through the leaky roof, was a crude boxlike arena, 12 ft. square, with an old piece of canvas on the floor. A dirty white blanket was spread on an oil drum, to receive the dead body of the loser. A bucket and sponge were ready to lave the winner's wounds...
...followed by only five days a decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission to raise railroad freight rates for certain commodities enough to give U. S. roads an estimated $47,500,000 more revenue a year (TIME, Nov. 1). This sum President Jeffers last week called "a drop in the bucket." With 200 other top U. S. railroad executives he presently sat down in Chicago to discuss passing the bucket to the I.C.C. once more. After two days' talk the conclave agreed to ask the I.C.C. for: 1) a flat 15% rise in general freight rates estimated to produce...