Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung last week cut off news from Red China to U.S. and other Western papers. In Shanghai, his Alien Affairs Bureau ordered all correspondents, except those representing publications in countries which had recognized the new regime (i.e., Russia, its satellites and Yugoslavia), to stop filing cables. That left Hong Kong and Canton as the only major news centers in China still open to U.S. newsmen. Protested the U.S. State Department: "A crude effort on the part of the Chinese Communists to force recognition...
...every conceivable means, from gondola to airliner. Bicycle is the fashion abroad: on maps, roads are even marked with little pointed things to show where the hills are and which way they go. Jeeps are cheap and rugged. A few stalwarts went about on motorcycles, which are fine except on cobblestones, where they shake you to jelly...
...flat-heeled models. Callahan, who leases the "debutante" shoe department in Manhattan's Bonwit Teller, Inc., got Philadelphia's Cellini Shoes, Inc. to make the shoes, plugged them in the Sunday New York Times. In two weeks, mail orders came in from every state in the union-except Montana. Mystified, Callahan ran the same ad in the New York Herald Tribune. Again the orders poured in; still no sales in Montana, which calls itself the "Bonanza State...
...documentary. His highway scenes give a sense of speeding movement and the ominous effect on the driver of cars hurtling past in a metallic rhythm. Occasionally he turns in a totally authentic shot, e.g., an oatmeal-grey Sunday morning in the produce market, the street forlorn and empty except for some work-worn truckers sitting on crates eating watermelon...
Ellen never comes to his call, and the rest of the castle staff, all of whom are English except Paddy, the silent peacock-keeper, are mostly too preoccupied to comfort the dying man. For World War II has started and these English men & women are nervous exiles in a neutral but silently hostile land, half relieved, half ashamed when they think of what they are escaping...