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Elsa Maxwell, who never wears jewels at the smartly publicized parties she gives at others' expense, was judged in Manhattan's City Court to owe a $2,980.74 jewelry bill, ordered to fork over the $996.47 in her checking account to be applied against the judgment. Elsa said that she had helped sell a $30,000 emerald to Cinema Producer Jack Warner, took the $2,980.74 in jewelry instead of a commission. "There are dozens of society women," she said, "who sell jewels on commission...
...soldiers were laughing, chattering and shouting "Ting hao!" ("Good!") to everyone. The blockade had been broken; they had done it. Some of them were sitting happily on the last Jap machine-gun emplacements directly in the fork of the road, where the dirt track of the Shweli Valley spilled on the black asphalt surface of the main Burma highway itself. A little distance off, Chinese soldiers stood gaping with peasant eyes at the monstrous steel hides of the American tanks...
...estimate. Army and Navy flyers and antiaircraft gunners also shot down 81 Jap planes last week, bringing the total Jap losses over and near Leyte to 1,700 planes since Oct. 20. Whatever the price of holding the Philippines as long as possible, the Jap apparently was willing to fork it up. But it would not be the first time the Jap had fed thousands of men into battle with nothing more than the hope of killing a certain percentage of Americans before his own troops had been annihilated...
...machine, an "intelligent dishwasher" is needed: e.g., the water in the machine must not get too cold or the dishes will have a higher bacteria count than they had to begin with; if it gets too hot, it will provide food for the customer's commonest complaint, a fork with cooked...
...last week's primary Bennett Clark was snowed under. Reasons: 1) his own soggy inertia-he neglected his mail, several times stood up audiences that had come to hear him; 2) the opposition of C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee; 3) the aggressive campaign waged at every creek fork by owl-eyed Roy McKittrick, the state's Attorney General...