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...hectic days the Dow-Jones averages of industrials tumbled to 156.34-down 5.18 points. Rail averages were down 2.23 points. On Friday, when traders unloaded 2,000,000 shares, the drop in values was the sharpest for any day in 16 months...
...double-barreled blast at sport by War Mobilizer Jimmy Byrnes (TIME Jan. 1) reaped a hectic harvest. His order padlocking U.S. race tracks produced a multitude of moans from horse-folk, but mightier still was the chorus of questions that sprang from all kinds of sport fans all over the nation: did re-examination of 4-F athletes indicate the near-end of every sport, especially big-league baseball...
Skulls and Buzzing Flies. Kudriavtsev led us to some large, open graves. Here were buried the bodies of the camp's personnel, hastily shot and buried on July 21 in the last hectic days before the Red Army closed in. The pits stank in the warm sun. There were skulls and a piece of a Red Army cap and a buzzing of large flies. Around the pits, in the grass, poppies were growing. Orange red poppies. Big ones...
...Freshmen who waited in restless exile at Mather Hall earlier this summer before receiving permanent House assignments are still there and, except for 32 officers of the Army Air Forces Statistical school, who will leave July 31, Mather is empty for the second time in a hectic wartime career of one year...
...about it all is that the average man, making up his income tax or with some other worry, hasn't the foggiest notion of what Lord Halifax did say and, what is more, doesn't care . . . which is the way, we fear, with a lot of those hectic controversies which politicians, publicists and pundits imagine to be historymaking, but which in the end don't matter at all. The publicists, pundits and politicians get themselves all worked up and imagine that all the rest of us are worked up too, when the truth is that...