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...slow start. While Ike partisans sweated out the summer (on a thin gruel of hints, hopes and predictions, Taft workers swarmed through the nation, buttonholing politicians, signing up state managers, and thumping urgent drums. The Taft bandwagon, they now tell the hesitant, is already at the finish line, but they are willing to wait another ten seconds for latecomers to get aboard. The Taft followers do not win votes by direct promises of jobs. "We just tell prospective delegates that when it comes time to distribute the patronage, of course we'll want advice from our real friends," explains...
...pardon, uncle, but you do me injustice. The CRIMSON doesn't come out during the Christmas season. But indeed sir, before you can start your gruel on the morning of January 5, it will be back...
Gangrene & Thin Gruel. Last week when his transfer was announced, pink-cheeked Father Gannon stretched back from his littered desk with feelings of relief and regret. At 55, he still had plenty to say about education; he acknowledged that he had not accomplished all that he wanted in his 13 years at Fordham. Thinking back on it, Father Gannon remarked that his assignment had been "interesting" and "constantly varied" but there had been drawbacks. He had felt "illiteracy climbing up my legs like gangrene," seen his own writing turn to "thin gruel." Moreover, there had been little time for reading...
...possessions to buy food on the black market, he replied: "How can one who judges others do any black marketing?" When his father sent extra food from Kyushu island, he turned it all over to his family. He and his wife subsisted, precariously, on thin soup and corn meal gruel. Their food rations went to their two young sons...
Shared Sin. After eight months on Berhala the prisoners were moved to the main camp at Kuching. The women worked at forced field labor on a daily diet of one cup of rice gruel, five tablespoons of cooked rice, a few greens, tea, a little sugar. Soldier prisoners bargained with their guards for skinned cats and rats; "all of us were eating weeds and grass, and plenty of us would have liked to eat each other." For complaining of attempted rape, Mrs. Keith was beaten so badly that two ribs broke. Yet she was the favorite of Camp Commander Colonel...