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...Excerpt: He hath put down the mighty from their seats and exalted them of low degree. He hath filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he hath sent empty away...
...Excerpt from TIME'S story: "All in all, the new U.S. ally [Emperor Bao Dai] in Southeast Asia is a weak reed. And the alliance is as ironic as anything in history. For the same U.S. Government which abandoned the Chinese Nationalists because they were not good enough was committed ... to defend a playboy emperor and the worst and almost the last example of white man's armed imperialism in Asia...
Then there is the case of "Baby L," foundling found on a hospital doorstep in a shoebox. Baby L rapidly improved, he took nourishment and gained weight. Then, to excerpt from his-case history...
...following excerpt is from a letter we have, just received from TIME Perpetual Subscriber 101, a German living in Germany. He writes: "Having had the doubtful privilege of living in a totalitarian state for 12 years, I have been deprived of reading TIME for many years . . . When war broke out I had to put up with a dreary, TiMEless life. For an old perpetual, this was truly an ordeal. Now I am getting TIME again at the very date of issue, like any New Yorker, although I live in a tiny community some four miles from a railroad station...
...side was an excerpt from a Hedda column gibing at Actress Joan Fontaine. On the other was an excerpt from a column by Hearst's Harry Crocker, frequent escort of Actress Fontaine, noting an "inane attack in print by a certain female." "Hollywood," Crocker had written, "realizes that [such] ridiculous outbreaks are the result of her years of frustration as a jobless actress." Below, signed Joan Bennett, was the query: "This COULDN'T be you, could it, Hedda...