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...stocky, well-liked Press-agent Otto Winkler. They were tired. There were no sleeping accommodations on T.W.A.'s Flight 3, due shortly on its way to Los Angeles. Winkler wanted to go to a hotel, sleep, take a train. Miss Lombard vetoed the idea, saying "I'll curl up and take a pill and pff I'll be asleep...
...landlord, who ran a draper's shop at the sign of Il Corno (the horn), soon changed by his apprentices into II Corno Inglese (horns by Byron). Marianna has been described as a "demon of avarice and libidinousness." But Byron found that her hair had "the curl and colour of Lady Jersey...
Japanese textile factories operate at 40% of capacity. Staple-fiber-a species of rayon made of wood fiber-kimonos (which fall apart after several washings), staple-fiber suits (that curl up in the rain), staple-fiber diapers (that scratch babies' bottoms) have replaced the old fabrics; and even these are rationed...
Last week Franklin Roosevelt reached a worm-turning point. Having tolerated strikes in defense industry for many months-until the public was fed up and Congress indignant-he either had to put up or curl up. The three strikes which put him in that spot were in the logging camps of the Northwest, in San Francisco shipyards, at North American Aviation, Inc., in Inglewood, Calif. In each case strikers had arrogantly defied the Federal Government. In each case responsible labor leaders repudiated the strike. So finally the President spanked...
...Japanese hoped then to curl back to east and west, encircle and crush the two Chinese halves. But the Chinese struck north along the flanks of the Japanese salient and threatened to encircle the would-be encirclers. The Communist guerrillas, whose inaction in their areas behind the Japanese lines had contributed to the initial Japanese success, began to fight...