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...which runs down the steep slope were nine more bodies within a 25-yd. area. There were plenty of bullet clips in the little leather cases which hung on the wearers' belts. Near the bottom of the slope lay the body of a Japanese captain. His silk white handkerchief was centered by a lewd ink sketch. A couple of hundred yards down the valley we found a dead Japanese officer who carried, like most Japs, photographs of his wife and children. It had rained the previous night, so the officer's open mouth was half filled with water...
...Mother Will Know. At 20, he caught a heavy cold, and when he took his handkerchief from his mouth after a coughing spell, he saw with horror "a tiny spot of blood on it." Life, that had hitherto been "desirable and glorious," was charged suddenly and forever with the terror of death. This terror spurred Wolfe's rebellion against those who urged him to look for security in life-"the crawling, abject, bird-in-a-hand theory." To his mother's plea that he settle down to teach in Asheville, he replied "I must make or ruin myself...
...Bronx, N.Y., a grand jury indicted twelve youths for raping a 17-year-old girl in a crowded movie house. The leader of the hoodlums, Frank Califano, 17, terrorized the victim by twisting a handkerchief around her neck...
Davis returned from Oxford with the habit of wearing his handkerchief in his sleeve. Otherwise he was unchanged: he retained his Indiana twang, a dignity Midwestern rather than British. He taught high school for a year in Indiana, went to Manhattan and a $10-a-week job with Adventure magazine, doubled his salary by moving to the New York Times...
These and the other much-moved listeners probably did not stop to analyze what had pulled at their hearts. It was not the words. In any other month they might have sounded flat. It was the woman, the way she clutched her handkerchief and brought her tight hand down on the desk for emphasis, the flash in her eyes which reflected something deep in her experience. Madame Chiang and China know the meaning of endurance. Through this woman, a few Americans saw and understood China...