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...popular elections-should include 17 members of the Kuomintang* and four each from the other three groups. There were vacant council chairs for the Communists on terms nobody in China expected Communists to accept: 1) recognize the authority of the broadened Government in Nanking; 2) let go their intermittent grip on North China rail lines...
Just when it looked as if the danger of flu was safely over, an epidemic struck. Last week the U.S. was in the grip of an unseasonable wave of influenza. Starting early in March, two months after the usual seasonal peak for the disease, the epidemic had risen to some 50,000 cases a week, was still going strong...
...Orleans youth was in the grip of something called Voutian, a way of life given to the world by a jazz musician named Slim Gaillard. Its practitioners called themselves Vouts (pronounced Vowts), prefixed names with the symbol "cat-o," said "scooto" for goodbye, and added "reeny" to almost every other word to give it class. When two male Vouts met they whirled their "jelly chains" (three-foot watch chains), bent, backwards from the knees, and reached up to shake hands at eye level. New Orleans girls were wearing bells on their shoes and carrying ''slam books"-notebooks...
Tennessee's Senator Kenneth D. McKellar, 78, one of the capital's specialists in bussing pretty girls for the photographers, got a grip on Hilma Seay, 1947 Maid of Cotton, and went into his specialty (see att). The kiss brought her no luck: she was about to take off for France when news came that a dock fire at Le Havre had destroyed $2,000,000 worth of U.S. cotton she was going over to welcome...
...past could take time from his desperate effort to save himself by climbing higher, he would see below a paralyzing panorama of desolation. Must he join it too? How much longer can he keep going? What is the state of Western civilization? How firm is its grip upon the rocks which can kill more easily than they can help his ascent...