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...Wamana emerged alone, his face the color of ashes. The pit, he said, was hot as a furnace; Narayan thought it better not to come out until the following day. The crowd roared with disapproval, and Wamana went back to the pit. Soon he emerged again, this time to confess the truth. Narayan, he wailed, was dead...
...sponsors of a humane land reform movement. Canada in 1950 was all set to recognize the Chinese Communist government, and the Korean war upset the plan. Canadian diplomats now admit that Canada "would have looked awfully foolish and inept if we'd gone through with recognition." They also confess that they did not expect the Chinese Reds "to be as vicious as they became" in Korea. But disillusioned though they have been on some scores, Canada's China policymakers still look with cool distaste on the Nationalists in Formosa, still cling to their passive attitude toward Chinese Communism...
...Confess (Sarah Vaughan; Columbia). Singer Vaughan, more restrained than usual, does a thoroughly professional job on a new song. A Lover's Quarrel, on the other side, is mountain music, and no business of Sarah...
Potboiler. In Savannah, Amateur Moonshiner Caleb Grimes staggered 14 miles from his farm to police headquarters to confess that he had,just spent two days trying to recover from the effects of sampling his homemade whisky, wheezed: "Get rid of the stuff before it kills somebody...
Confronted with the horrible example of Editor Fedoseev, nearly 1,000 Soviet economists and writers gathered at a mass meeting in Moscow last week to confess in public their sin of having once praised the works of Nikolai A. Voznesensky...