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However it started, one night there was a burst of shooting along the amorphous border. Soon a grown-up battle was raging, with machine guns and artillery backing up the rifle fire, with Peruvian warplanes roaring overhead. Quito said Peruvian bombers had destroyed the military barracks and a church in...
Anne Bullitt, motherless little rich girl who presided as first lady at the gloomy U.S. Embassy in Moscow back in 1934, was introduced to grown-up Washington society last week, will make her formal debut at Philadelphia on the 27th. Heiress to the Philadelphia Bullitt fortune, sophisticated beyond her years...
position on World War II, and it came from the man who might some day have to take the reins of U.S. policy. Excerpts: "The responsibility which was offered to us following World War No. 1 we declined. We didn't realize . . . the time would inevitably come when our...
The characters are these: Mrs. Walton, the mother of Gracia and Marge; Gracia and Tom Wilson, her husband; and Marge, who, as the book opens, is being married to John Graves, a man much older than she. Of this group, only Tom Wilson is a normal and decent person. Mrs...
Principal cause of Britain's youthful crime wave was the relaxation of grown-up authority. Many a father had gone away to camp, or worked overtime in a war factory. At least half of London's compulsory grade schools had been destroyed by bombs, or converted to other...