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After only a month on the job as Minister of National Defense for all three services, Brooke Claxton last week swung his new broom. Calling in reporters, he laid out his plans to sweep out all fuss & frills from the Army, Navy and Air Force, chop $50 million off the $440 million in this year's defense budget...
...snow platoon reaches an unimportant lane off the beaten path--Holyoke Street, for example--the unpleasant melange of snow, slush, and mud has frozen over with two-foot sink holes and ridges at appropriate intervals. It is now too late. A regiment of men would be needed to chop out the ice by hand, and more scientific means prove futile. Salt removes the street as well as the ice, and flame throwing devices only turn the dirty brown mixture an oily black. Only an act of God, such as the recent quick thaw, can bring relief to the Cantabridgian...
Times were hard in Nanking, but the Fred Gruins had a fat goose (no turkeys available) and Fred Jr., aged five, was all set to chop down a little evergreen growing inside the bamboo fence of the Gruin's ten-mow (3⅓-acre) "estate." In Shanghai, Bureau Chief William Gray, his wife "Freddie," and their three children, looked forward to being in their new house on Columbia Road. Said Gray: "We'll hang up the sang chi sheng (mistletoe) and the mao erh to tzu (cat's ears or thorn of holly) and startle passing ricksha...
...Arthur Spitz) brought famed singer Richard Tauber to Broadway. First produced in 1928, Yours Is My Heart might well have been produced much earlier-its music has a dated schmalz and lushness, its plot a dateless inanity, its humor a primordial ghastliness. Shifting from a tacky Paris to a chop-suey Peiping, its romance of a French opera singer (Stella Andreva) and a Chinese prince gets snarled in dramatic difficulties long before it bogs in dynastic ones. Out of the debris emerges Tauber's fine tenor voice to sing the world-famous title song in English, French, Italian...
...comprehends the mysterious habits of fire and pure, sterile earth; for this it lives crammed together in slippery streets where the housewife must change white window curtains at least once a fortnight . . . / For this it exists-that you may drink tea out of a teacup and toy with a chop on a plate. . . . It is England in little, lost in the midst of England. . . . -Arnold Bennett...