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Strictly speaking, Ulysses did not so much disembark as come out of hiding, garbed in new and respectable garments. Ever since 1922, when the first edition of Ulysses was published in Paris, hundreds of U. S. citizens have smuggled copies through the customs or bought them from bookleggers. But this week, on the strength of Federal Judge John Munro Woolsey's decision that Ulysses is not obscene (TIME, Dec. 18), Random House was able to publish the first edition of the book ever legally printed in any English-speaking country...
...broken campaign pledges, sits little G.O.P., eager for the January fray. Indicative of the changing, wavering attitude of the public is yesterday's Herald-Tribune front page "news-story" which analyzes the disconcerting present and the uncertain future of the NRA, thus laying down a gangplank from which to disembark without incurring the charge of sudden desertion of the ship. On top of all this comes, as we have pointed out, the impending convention of the country's Mad Hatters. Bad as things appear to be now, by January there may be loud, insistent cries for an American Guy Fawkes...
...year-old Rotterdam pushed her high prow past England's Bishop Rock, Rotterdam's strikers sent wireless messages to Rotterdam's crew. They were never delivered. Apparently acting under orders from the main office, Captain Van Dulken privately told his passengers that they would have to disembark either at Boulogne or Southampton. The news was quietly received by all but the returning athletes who were looking forward to a Jimmy Walker wel come at the quayside...
Seemingly General Shirakawa thought this "battle" would improve the morale of the Imperial troops. His own state of mind became more & more remarkable. Although the Occidental residents of Shanghai's International Settlement have recently seen whole shiploads of Japanese troops disembark in their Settlement, General Shirakawa took the position last week that all Japanese forces had disembarked outside the Settlement. "The Japanese army hopes," declared the General's official spokesman, "that its sacrificial effort to save the Settlement from gunfire is appreciated...
...were other thousands chafing under the thought of France's mastery of Europe, ready to try something desperate. The Frenchmen would only be in the capital two days. Every move, every minute was planned for. Policemen spent long hours deciding whether it would be safer for the visitors to disembark from the Friedrichstrasse station nearest to the French Embassy, but surrounded by tall roofs that offered good shelter to snipers, or whether they should be rushed across the city and through the Tiergarten from the more secluded Lehrter terminal...