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...fighting grew fiercer in Java last week. Japanese soldiers helped the British in a sharp action at Semarang in central Java. U.S.-made Sherman tanks helped British Indian troops finally clear most of Surabaya. Noisy, effective Indonesian radio stations cried to the youth of the Indies to rise and join their jungle columns. At week's end the British sped Mosquito-borne rockets into two radio stations...
...They crystallize like lifeless matter, but they also possess the astonishing ability to reproduce themselves like living organisms. A virus "generation" probably lasts for only 20 to 30 minutes, so that an eon of virus evolution can occur within a few years on the human time scale. New and fiercer breeds of virus can thus develop from time to time, then vanish. Doctors believe that the virus which caused the worldwide influenza plague of 1918 is still with us, but the once deadly old stock is relatively decadent...
Cissie Patterson's feud with Pearson & Allen was more complex and fiercer than the others in which she often engages. She has close family and professional ties with Columnist Drew Pearson. He is her ex-son-in-law and father of her only granddaughter Ellen, now 15, in whose favor Cissie was said to have drawn a will leaving her fortune (about $40,000,000) and the Times-Herald...
...London Daily Mirror's caustic criticism of the Government (TIME, March 30), instead of backing down under the fierce drubbing which was administered to him by virtually the entire British press and a good part of the House of Commons, returned to the attack, under an even fiercer drubbing...
...American textbooks from the school. Husband Canby was discovering, or being joyously discovered by, local Communists and fellow travelers. He was also helping a C.I.O. strike by printing strikers' handbills free, speaking at their meetings. To such acts of God as hurricane and blizzard, the Kittredges added the fiercer excitements of campaigning to elect a lady liberal to the school board and a somewhat befuddled farmer as moderator of the town meeting...