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...years had served as model for the dreamy, giraffe-necked ladies he painted. When his wife died Rossetti buried his book of unpublished verses in her coffin. Years later he had to exhume his wife's coffin to recover them. Laboriously deciphering the words on the worm-eaten pages, he presented the poems to a public pre-thrilled by their funereal history...
Rationing is one of three ways of keeping demand down to supply. The others: 1) meatless days (if people don't eat more on other days), 2) letting meat prices go up until people don't want to buy so much. Fact is, those who have eaten much meat are going to eat less, and those who have eaten little are going to eat more-for meatless days, rationing and wartime redistribution of income each in its way has a substantially similar levelling effect. And there will be only a small war sacrifice involved. The nation...
Last year the recapture of Rzhev would have filled Russia and her allies with rejoicing, for then Moscow was in deadly danger and it would have signaled relief. This year the danger was even graver because in the south Russia's industrial guts were being eaten away. As yet the Rzhev offensive had done little to lessen Russia's agony...
...filled a half-dozen notebooks. Japanese, who take for granted their own correspondents are spies, refused to believe he was not one. In Cell No. 5, a 12-by-18-ft. cage with six-inch bars, he was dumped among 40 prisoners-consumptives, lepers, syphilitics, even a few Japanese. Eaten alive by lice, they tried to keep warm by crowding five or six together under one filthy blanket. Rations were rice, occasionally embellished by fish heads and seaweed. Forbidden to talk to each other, the prisoners were compelled to sit on the floor, in rows, for easier counting during change...
Tony Pastula, the 24-year-old bomber, came of a Polish family in Youngstown, Ohio. He had a horror of being buried at sea on a rough day. "Perhaps, also," says Dixon, "he had a # Seamen Pastula, Dixon, Aldrich. horror of being eaten [by his mates]." Tony was the thinnest and thought he might be the first to die. Nevertheless, he agreed with the other two that "the survivors should eat the heart, liver and other such organs" of whichever one went first. Says Dixon: "Today I don't believe that any of us had a real intention...