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...night before, gangs of young Fa-scisti had roamed the streets plastering walls with posters that announced: COLLAPSE OF THE DEMOCRACIES, INCONTESTABLE PROOF OF FRANCO-BRITISH DEFEAT. In front of the Regina Carlton Hotel in the Via Vittorio Veneto they bumped into two British Embassy attaches and two U. S. newspaper correspondents. One of the Englishmen, Secretary George La Bouchere, started to peel one of the posters from a wall. With that the fight was on. Into the lobby of the Regina Carlton burst the milling group. Correspondent Virginia Cowles of the North American Newspaper Alliance ran to telephone British...
This week, with ceremony and speeches, Noguchi's big piece of steel, securely fitted in its niche in the A. P. Building's façade, was unveiled. Short, kewpie-faced Noguchi listened to the speeches, viewed his plaque, looked relieved. When it was all over he started for Hawaii, where Hawaiian Pineapple Co. (Dole pineapple) had offered him a three-month holiday...
Guerrillas. A phrase heard often in China, where things are always breaking down, is: "hsiang fa tze"-"let's cook up a scheme." By January 1938, Shanghai's industry-which was about 70% of China's-had been turned into acres of scrap steel and broken brick. Unless some scheme could be cooked up to replace this wrecked beehive, China's economy would have very little sting left...
...Fifth Street and Hennepin Avenue, clangorous with streetcar traffic, he stood up before a nostalgic crowd. Said he: "I was here when the first brick was put in and I am here now to take the first brick out." Then, with a crowbar he pried one from the façade of an imposing seven-story Moorish-Victorian pile...
...Peking houseboy mocking his master with the chant : "Mo-yu cou-dzah, Mo-yu wa-dzah, Mo-yu chen, Mo-yu fa-dzah" -he has no pants, no socks, no money, no method...