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...North China, Roy Chapman Andrews ate locusts cooked in sugar, found them "good, crisp and sweet...
...newcomer, John Bonner, handles almost no story at all with a novel treatment and style, crisp and accurate enough to hold a lot of attention. "The Boy-Girl Relationship" naturally concerns just that. Only the boy never meets, or tries to get, or loses girl. His love, which is completely accidental, is a pleasant variation of an old Bella Spewack theme...
Only one of the seven was in civilian clothes-Count Teleki." While Ribbentrop was reading the crisp decision, Rumania's Manoilescu grew pale and faint. Baron von Dornberg hastened to his side with a glass of water...
...evidently found means to extract some of these hoarded millions from their owners and perhaps had augmented the supply by turning his own mints to counterfeiting. At any rate he was using British money to finance his war on Britain. Britain's move turned this prized valuta into crisp, imposing, worthless souvenirs...
Sirs: "Prelude to History" in the last issue was TIME'S best job-intuitive and crisp. Most of us believe Roosevelt is a great and good man but after all the talk about the horse & buggy it appears in these last weeks as if he had taken us for something of a buggy ride himself. At least it now appears far from a streamlined ride. If the truth be known, most Americans are less deeply shocked by the German strength of arms than by the Allied collapse. This nation is still too young and too vigorous...