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...grassy hill outside Kunming, four U.S. flyers, killed in a Jap bombing raid, lay newly buried in the damp China soil. Back in the barracks, their friends read the ugly facts in the news bulletin. Some were men from the Pennsylvania coal fields. Their first reaction was bewilderment: ("Why do they let John Lewis push them around that way?"); their second, cold fury ("I'd just as soon shoot one of those strikers as Japs...
...little man in the damp overcoat was mildly drunk. He scraped his feet over the sawdust, scratched his rump, downed the last of his "mild and bitter...
Ranking with these in interest are graves. Here again the amateur can do irreparable damage: "The successful removal of a skeleton often calls for unusual skill and an inordinate expenditure of time and patience. In damp ground bones may be so soft as to defy movement until hardened by drying or by special treatment with fixing solutions. An inexperienced digger may tear away a skeleton without being aware of its presence. Since the teeth are less likely to take on the color of the damp soil, a bungling amateur may report that he found no bones, merely a few teeth...
Died. William Phillips (Cinemactor Tully Marshall), 78, lantern-jawed veteran of Hollywood's silent days; inEncino, Calif. His roles ranged from damp-rotted beachcombers to dyspeptic plutocrats; his biggest hit: as The Covered Wagon's bibulous frontier scout, Jim Bridger...
With the prospect of a scant three week schedule and only a handful of games, Coach Floyd Stahl's Crimson diamond aspirants are rounding into shape these days in the damp confines of Briggs Cage, anxiously awaiting the arrival of warmer weather. Yesterday saw the first practice contest, a four inning affair in which the B nine handed the A squad a 4 to 0 beating...