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...CANNADY Crescent City...
From Jamaica the Commission sailed eastward along the crescent of islands that forms the Leeward and Windward groups, down through Barbados (whose 1,163 people to the square mile make up the densest agricultural population in the Western Hemisphere) to Tobago and Trinidad (which imports four-fifths of its food). Everywhere the investigators found squalor, economic decay, unrest. Ruled by professional colonial administrators, with a hierarchy of whites and an exploited mass of blacks, Chinese and East Indian coolies, the West Indies were the victims of unrepresentative government, of the low exchange value of such primary products as sugar, cocoa...
Blonde Cinemactress Ann Sothern, scheduled for an appendectomy, announced her scar would be crescent-shaped. Reason: "I have discussed all possible scars with my physician and I have chosen what I believe to be the most artistic. . . . It's costing me so much I'm going to keep it just 'for myself. I will contemplate its artistry in private...
...Communications were badly disrupted, slowing rescue work by the Army, volunteers, and Red Crescent (Turkish Red Cross). Bridges, rails, highways were either cut by the quake or blocked with snow...
...kinds of processed supplies. Worst of all, they feared disease. So, when the ship indicated it would stop, they eagerly gathered up the leaf baskets, wood carvings, woven hats and bird feathers, which are their dollars, quarters, dimes and nickels, and stood by their longboats in the crescent of Bounty...