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...only sound near the top of 10,000-ft. Mount Alagi one morning last week was the chink of a chisel on stone-two workmen were carving a name into a crude headstone. Most of the graves were marked only by rough wooden crosses, hacked from ammunition boxes; beside each cross was a half-buried wine bottle, with the deceased's identification papers crammed in. The workmen, glad to be alive, chipped somberly among the graves of men who had done their brave best...
Least edifying sight of Washington's muggy summer of 1940 was the skedaddling, ten-thumbed carpentry of Congress in slapping together the Excess Profits Tax (TIME, Oct. 14)-a jerry-built construction job which everyone knew would show many a chink, leak and missing windowpane when the March 15 wind started blowing. Working too fast, Congress wound up with a 50-page tax bill which not even the experts understood. The Congressmen themselves were reduced to giggling over it like schoolboys unable to hide any longer the fact that they did not know their lesson...
...letters are eloquent and solemn, might have been written 50 years ago. He loves to write of ancient monuments, of white-haired workmen pondering on Britain's mighty past. For spice he tells such genteel stories as the one about the airraid warden. (Warden: "There's a chink showing from your window upstairs." Young lady: "That's not a Chink, it's the Japanese Ambassador.") Of Britain's present Cabinet he wrote in last week's letter: "We [the Conservatives] are literally a party with only two men left. .' . . Churchill is one, Beaverbrook...
Other members of the Independent Voters' executive committee were announced: Cinemactor Melvyn Douglas, Harvard Law School's Dean James M. ("Chink") Landis, Novelist Fannie Hurst, Freda Kirchwey, editor of The Nation, Williams College's Professor Max Lerner, Thomas ("the Cork") Corcoran, official committee agitator, bobbed into New York City to help Mr. LaGuardia. To Springfield, Mass. went handsome Paul V. McNutt, onetime Presidential aspirant himself, whose throat was last year neatly slit by New Deal candidate-assassins. Keynoting the Massachusetts Democratic State Convention, Mr. McNutt described the Republican policy as giving business complete license to operate...
...heaved his 14 stone against the door. It would not budge. He lit a match and observed that the mirror over the washstand was fogging from his breath. Scared stiff, he grabbed -a razor and forced it between the door and its frame. This admitted a little air, a chink of light. By diligently manipulating the razor Captain Margesson made a big enough hole to keep breathing, then he went to work on the door catch. Four hours later he staggered out exhausted...