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...headed south the Chinese were still some 300 miles from Lhasa. Reports from the Tibetan border citadel of Cham-do, which the Chinese captured on Oct. 19, said party commissars were giving captured Tibetan troops a thorough Communist indoctrination, 100 sangs ($5) each, and sending them back to their homes...
...sayin'," muttered Joe, "I didn't pay to get in." For their $246,546, the customers did not see anybody Charles' seriously manager, hit the who floor fainted in except the Ezzard ring as his lackluster leather-thrower was being proclaimed the new heavyweight cham pion of the world (National Boxing Asso ciation version, not good in New York or London). It was enough to make fans sigh even for the half-good old days of Primo Carneca and Max Baer...
...father-in-law (as no other Hearst editor ever dared do), chopped up Pegler's copy at will, hired Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day" column, set wife Anna to writing a corny, folksy "homemaker's" column. P-I circulation spurted; so did advertising. The Boettigers became Cham ber of Commerce favorites, because they helped bring big federal construction projects to Seattle. Their New Deal editorials won them labor's friendship ; their obvious love for the Pacific Northwest won almost everybody else. The hardest-bitten skeptics came to agree that ex-Chicago Trib-uneman Boettiger...
...Leipzig Herr Dr. Bundin chose to die by a method in keeping with his professional interests (he was owner of a big bazooka factory). To a caviar-and-cham-pagne banquet he invited 100 of his cronies. When the last course was eaten, the fat cigars smoked and the fine cognac gone, Herr Bundin pressed a button. He had mined the banquet hall. He and his guests were atomized into dust...
...Congressmen explaining that they had been ill, at the dentist's, out to lunch, writing a speech, carrying the burden of the war. This week the House would get a chance to vote on the repealer. The record would show that little brown pixies had sneaked into the Cham ber, passed pensions while Congress was away, or snoozing...