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...Chinese government needed a field general with the habit of success. Last week Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek thought he had found just the man. To the post of military commander for all North China, with headquarters in Peiping, he called bulletheaded, bland-eyed, 53-year-old General Fu Tso-yi from his "pacification" command in Chahar...
Nice Kitty. In Elizabeth, N.J., a six-year-old cat named Mitzie had got in the habit of jumping to the bathroom washbasin and brushing her own teeth, said her mistress...
...Andrew Patrick David, but "to my family I was and always have been 'David.'" He recalled "the great Queen" as an old lady in a white tulle cap, black satin dress and "shiny black shoes with elastic sides. But what fascinated me most about her was her habit of taking breakfast in little revolving huts [in the grounds of her residences, Windsor, Balmoral and Osborne] mounted on turntables so that they could be faced away from the wind. Weather permitting, she would ride over to these shelters in a little carriage drawn by a white pony...
...occupation and the post-bellum period of catch-as-catch-can international politics have hardened us to a degree where we have practically abandoned all be lief in the goodness of a people and the pureness of intention of a government. We have got into the bad habit of looking behind those so-called good and spontaneous actions, often to find there self-interest...
...Gaitskell, is, like Cripps, a product of Winchester and New College. Last week Gaitskell advocated fewer baths as a means of saving coal. "Personally," he had told an audience in Hastings, "I have never had a great many baths myself, and I can assure those who are in the habit of having a great many that it does not make a great difference to their health if they have less. As for your appearance, most of that is underneath and nobody sees...