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Twenty or more thousand square miles in northern Honan Province are clutched in the grip of hunger. Men and women are eating the bark of trees and grass roots; swollen-bellied children are being sold for grain. Thousands have already died, hundreds of thousands are failing, ten millions face the slow winter-long agony of starvation. Causes: 1) the Japanese, who destroyed the rice before they retreated; 2) the gods, who sent no rain for the wheat...
...Book of Etiquette (Greenberg; $3) starts at the start ("Good manners begin in the cradle"), goes right to the finish ("Care should be taken in selecting a reliable funeral director"). Her observations are perceptive and practical. The book is infinitely detailed, as if Mrs. Harriman, a woman of firm grip and general sensibility, had found over the years that most Americans are fuzzy-minded, bewildered, perhaps even dopey. For instance, she tells how to get a stepladder for an upper berth: "Ring for the porter and he will bring one." How to mind your own business: "If a friend receives...
...Beaze and His Grip. Another hero was long-legged Johnny Beazley, 23, only Cardinal pitcher to win two games in this year's Series. He grips the ball so hard his hand quivers for a half hour after each game. But the Beaze has plenty on the ball. This year, his first in the big leagues, he won 21 games-best rookie record since Ol' Pete Alexander chalked...
...features bearing directly on the war. The fears of the editors that their magazine is "a luxury with which the College might well dispense" seem ungrounded in face of the excellence of this issue, and of the fact that now, of all times, colleges should fight to keep a grip on the values of the creative life...
...very thin margin" separates the balance of sea power in the Pacific. Last week the U.S. claimed that margin. "Slowly but surely we are tightening our grip," said Admiral Chester William Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet...