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...China, flatly contradicted Leland Stowe's third point. Mr. Kohlberg made a trip to China last summer, checked on arrivals of medical aid at Red Cross headquarters at Kweiyang. "At the time I was there," said he last week, "everything had arrived intact and checked to the dot with the detailed lists forwarded from New York...
...training centers of the Commission dot the seaboard on both coasts. At St. Petersburg, Fla., Hoffman Island, N.Y., Port Hueneme, Calif., are schools for apprentices, aged between 18 and 23, where would-be mariners do a seven-month hitch learning the rudiments of their trade. Students are paid $21 a month. Experienced able-bodied seamen and oilers get paid $72.50 to $82.50 a month while brushing up on their knowledge. In charge of all training is the U.S. Coast Guard...
...Babies need not be fed every four hours on the dot, but when they are hungry. They should be allowed to eat as much or as little as they want. When left to their own hunger pangs, most babies stick to an even schedule, eat the right amount necessary for growth and health...
Last week the audience, biggest and flashiest in a decade, sat in the middling comfortable seats of flag-draped Carnegie Hall. The 104 orchestra men sat also. The main piece was Beethoven's "Grand Symphony"-whose fateful dot-dot-dot-dash opening now means "V for Victory." A new, concealed spotlight picked out the pale, rhetorical hands of the conductor, emotional Leopold Stokowski. There was applause, and Times Critic Olin Downes took to his typewriter to complain of the orchestra's playing and the symphonic ways of "this curious man" Stokowski. This was the New York Philharmonic-Symphony...
...head in the wash basin, Chen's wife soaked it in alcohol and took it back to her village. There she sewed it to the neck and buried body and head. Now Chen and his head rest in a grave no different from thousands of others that dot the green hills of China...