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...center, only a few shops were open. Life in the Jewish quarter had ground to a shuddering halt as Arab violence flared up at the announcement of Palestine's partition. Those Jews whom we did see clung closely to their doorsteps, ready to flee inside at the slight est warning. The only Jew oblivious to it all was a turbaned Moorish Jew, who sat silently leaning against a building in the sun begging for baksheesh...
Alabama's Governor James ("Big Jim") Folsom, the woman-kissin'est chief executive any state ever had, can play peckerwood better than any shoeless redneck out of the back country. When he campaigned for office, his "Strawberry Pickers," a hillbilly band, followed him everywhere. He waved what he called a "suds bucket" for contributions and shouted, "You furnish the suds and ah'll do the scrubbing"-i.e., clean up the state. He said he kissed 50,000 women during his campaign...
...About Town (RKO Radio; Pathe) is the first movie that René Clair has made in France since 1934. The Brussels World Film Festival recently chose it-under its original title, Le Silence Est d'Or-as the finest motion picture made anywhere last year...
...pass down through the chow line we forget that we are no longer in the Army, and receive our food with little choice. We forget that we can take as much, or as little, as we desire. Instead we take a great deal more food than we ever est and end up leaving half of it on trays...
...clock: Reading Test. A'est to determine rate of speed and comprehension in reading. Required of all new students. A--M in New Lecture Hall; N--Z in Emerson...