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...ability. It had never occurred to the British that little men in shorts and gym shoes could actually filter through Malayan jungles. Japanese forces had apparently made contact all the way across the peninsula: even across the central mountain-spine. The middle jungles had previously been the domain of the dwarfish Sakai, a hairy, blow-gunning people who travelers say are so primitive that they have digits only up to two and count: one, two, many, many-many, many-many-many. The Japanese bribed savages to lead them through their jungle paths...
...stew, Tommy Hart last week found time to play a bit of golf, take a few members of his staff to the movies. Too old a sea dog to bark before biting, he still had a twinkle in his weather eye as he kept it cocked on his nautical domain. The beat he patrols is large - from Wake west to China - but the Admiral knows it like the back of his hand...
...permissible to reproduce (and perform) a musical score provided it is in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright...
Hampton's reprints are all in the public domain. Because Russia, like the U.S., is not a member of the Berne copyright convention, and has no copyright treaty with the U.S., Soviet Composer Serge Prokofieff is on the Hampton list. Hampton sells his Classical Symphony for $17.25. Rumanian Georges Enesco's early works were for some reason never copyrighted; Hampton sells his Rumanian Rhapsody No. 1 for $20 (the European edition costs...
...height of his privet hedge. They said it was three feet higher than the three-foot maximum for hedges growing on public property, ordered him to slice it in half. The general refused. Came men with yardsticks, who found only four of its 14 bushes were in the public domain. The authorities relaxed in silence. ∙ ∙ Adolf Hitler has ordered the former castle of Kaiser Wilhelm II in Posen (part of Poland 1919-39) remodeled, plans to use it himself...