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...Messrs. Shubert and Albert de Courville) is a lavishly murderous English mystery which acts out the nursery rhyme of the ten little Indians almost to the point of "-and then there were none." Mysteriously bidden to a house party on a lonely island, ten people find no host to greet them, only a gramophone solemnly charging each of them with having at some time committed a murder. Then one of them-the point, of course, being who-starts murdering the others at ten-minute intervals; and while he is busy with booby traps, poisons, axes, nooses and knives...
Tihwa (pop. 50,000), the capital of Sinkiang Province, turned out thousands of Chinese, Mohammedans, Uigurs, Uzbeks, Kazaks and Kueihuas to greet the highest U.S. official who had ever visited that dot in vast Chinese Turkestan. In preparation for the great day, the Governor,General Sheng Shih-tsai, laid in a fresh supply of toothbrushes, tongue-scrapers, and ear-cleaners, had the columns of his house freshly painted, took a U.S. Embassy attaché down a flight of stairs to show him the only flush toilet in all Sinkiang (600,000 sq. mi.). Proudly Governor Sheng pulled the chain...
Touring Solomon. Dictator Ubico likes to parade around the country on "trips of inspection." With a military escort, a couple of Cabinet ministers, a mobile radio station and an official biographer, he tears along the roads at breakneck speed. Landowners greet him with floral arches, sometimes line up their Indian laborers days in advance to await his coming. During brief pauses in the villages, he judges intricate cases of law in a minute flat, fires judges, reverses court decisions, releases prisoners, slaps others in jail. Often he makes up his mind simply by staring at a prisoner. Over the portable...
...midwar furlough in Dieppe, they hear the French townsfolk greet...
...laughed heartily when I (a TIME correspondent) asked permission to read the copy he received yesterday hundreds of miles forward from his base (I had to explain that TIME copies rarely catch up with TIME'S own people out here). Everywhere I go officers of every grade enthusiastically greet the new edition as a great morale sustainer...