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...Bureau of Investigation & Statistics. In time it became one of the world's biggest undercover agencies. It planted operatives from Bali to Burma, from Singapore to Sinkiang. It specialized in espionage and counterespionage; it kept watch on Communists, foreigners. Behind the Japanese lines its eyes were flower girls, coolies and ricksha men. In the most lurid Fu Manchu tradition, it reported to Tai Li with invisible ink messages, "eliminated" those on Tai Li's blacklist, and built up the core of an effective guerrilla army...
Many another big-league flower has blossomed in March and drooped long before October. But Di Mag, if past performance is any guide, should do even better when homers really begin to count than in spring rehearsal. To the surprise of his teammates, he was actually talking enthusiastically about baseball...
John quotes a passage from Viollet-le-Duc which well describes Frank Lloyd Wright's ambition, and to a considerable extent, his achievement. Wrote Viollet-le-Duc: "The leaf of a shrub, a flower, an insect-all have style; because they grow, are developed, and maintain their existence according to laws essentially logical. We can subtract nothing from a flower, for each part of its organism expresses a function. . . . Proceed as nature does in her works, and you will be able to invest with style all that your brain conceives...
...Eggs" & Harry. He campaigned without fear against "Ham & Eggs" in 1939 when it was in its full flower in California. He also posed-while party workers wrung their hands-for pictures with Harry Bridges, then the state's No. 1 Bogeyman...
...Geraniums. In Seattle, the Coast Guard caught a man carting away a mine he had found on the beach, asked him what he planned to do with it, subsequently announced: mines found on the beach must not be converted into flower pots...