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...drab PBY with red star markings landed at Tokyo's Atsugi Airport. Out squirmed a crowd of uniformed Russians and a stoop-shouldered Chinese peering myopically through violet-tinted horn rims. Henry Pu-yi, the perennial puppet, had been fished out of history's dustbin to testify at the trial of the Jap war criminals...
Cloak & Dagger. But last month, fretting lest OSS land in the postwar dustbin with other wartime agencies, Wild Bill threw aside its cloak and gave the U.S. a glimpse of the dagger. In daily press releases OSS (sounding a little like one unaccustomed to public speaking) told some of its exploits. OSS men had wormed their way into Gestapo schools. Others had infiltrated Siam to turn Bangkok into an Allied listening post. They had manned a mosquito fleet running munitions and information to the Greek resistance movement, worked 18 months as advance men in Africa for the invasion...
...genial, gangling Pennsylvania Dutchman whose foresight and tenacity once did much to save a whole industry. When radio was born, it swept U.S. music lovers off their feet, swept the mechanical phonograph into the dustbin. But Shumaker of Victor phonographs (who later became Victor's president) did not quit. He believed in the possibilities of electrified phonograph recording and reproduction. Driven by him, Victor scrapped its elaborate machinery, began making a new type of machine and record. Electrified, the industry went on to its greatest boom...
...members of the entourage of Sir Eric and Count Ciano> said with aplomb that of course the pact is a perfectly cold-blooded piece of advantage-seeking on both sides and that if it ever becomes to British or Italian interest to heave it into Europe's dustbin, that is where it will go, with no hard feelings between the diplomatic professionals. They have simply tried to end the insanity of the British Constitutional Democratic Monarchy having ever found itself in a quarrel with the Italian Fascist Corporative Monarchy-these two being "natural friends," with endless common interests...
...grim old Marshal threw a cordon of his fanatically loyal troops around the President's palace, shooed into it the Cabinet, Diet and Senate and provided Professor Moscicki with pen & ink. Scratch, scratch the puppet President signed a new Constitution (TIME, Dec. 25, 1933) which sweeps into the dustbin every vestige of Polish democratic institutions and regularizes in legal form the governing of Poland by what the new Constitution calls her "Elite"-actually her Army officers and ex-soldiers. Since the old Marshal feels they will always do as he orders, he had no hesitancy last week in conferring...