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...Embarrassed his Office of War Information and, his old spelling teacher by writing Generalissimo with two l's in a longhand letter transmitted to China's Chiang Kai-shek at the opening of a new radiophoto link with Chungking. OWI hastily blotted the extra l with ink eradicator. Chinese spokesmen, with traditional politeness, took the incident more calmly. They often spelled Generalissimo with two l's when using English, they said; moreover, what was the difference after it was rendered into Chinese...
Last summer President Roosevelt eyed the old Oregon's 10,300 tons of metal, decreed it should be demolished for scrap. Had he ordered the wrecking of the eleven-story pile of granite, ink and eloquence that is the Journal itself, Maria Jackson would hardly have been more shocked. She complained some, but being patriotic she did not resist...
With the help of 17 paying subscribers he has slowly boosted his little paper into the profit stage, a feat to make any red-ink-stained publisher gape. Last week Alvin was grossing "about 90? a week, barely enough to buy materials...
There was no doubt about the general kind of future Prime Minister Smuts wanted to see. He was one of Woodrow Wilson's stoutest fighters for the League of Nations; he savagely attacked the Versailles Treaty while its ink was still wet. To David Lloyd George he wrote prophetically: "This Treaty breathes a poisonous spirit of revenge which may yet scorch the fair face, not of a corner of Europe, but of Europe." Of his yapping nationalistic political enemies in Africa he has often said: "The dogs bark, but the caravan moves...
Artist is Neysa McMein (magazine covers), who has never worked with pen and ink before. Her first attempt is nothing extra, as comics go, but it will probably satisfy the customers. Says Artist McMein: "I despair of ever getting out the front door again. Why, they say these things sometimes go on for as long as 22 years...