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...rude scaffold stood in a Philippine cane field near the old Japanese torture camp of Los Banos. In the early morning (3:02 a.m.), under the glare of three floodlights, Lieut. General Tomoyuki Yamashita strode up its 13 steps, his big bulk dressed in a U.S. Army fatigue outfit -the symbol of military disgrace ordered by his conqueror, General Douglas MacArthur...
Most of Benton's recent pictures stayed comfortably close to the farm, and included a diversity of crops (Shucking Corn, Sugar Cane, Rice Threshing). But among his new claims to fame was one stylized, swirling arrangement of "Cowboys" and wooden-looking Indians which Benton had first envisioned through a glass of beer. Said he: "As far back as I can remember, the Anheuser-Busch brewery used a picture of Custer's last stand on their calendars. I've seen it in every saloon and pool hall in the Southwest." Benton decided to paint his own version because...
...Mike carries a blackthorn cane (as a boy he injured his hip in a fall), talks tough, and considers his greatest achievement a daring sit-down strike he pulled in 1937. He loudly denies that he is a Communist, but he has followed the U.S. Communists' corkscrew line with regularity...
Much of the U.S. last week was close to a sugar famine. The American Sugar Refining Co., biggest U.S. cane refiner, feared that all of its plants would run out of raw sugar in two weeks...
...Author Waugh lives in an old Gloucestershire manor house with his (second) wife, and four children whom he affects to detest. He is a connoisseur of wines and cigars, wears a bowler, takes the air swinging an old-fashioned cane. He cannot drive a car, shuns the telephone, barely accepts a telegram. Sighs his go-ahead friend Randolph Churchill: "He becomes more old-fashioned . . . every day. His favorite novelist is Trollope. . . . He seeks to live in an oasis...