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...revolver strung from her neck-to use on interlopers-stuck to her barren cattle land on Wyoming's Polecat Bench. She had homesteaded there in 1913 after hearing tales of a ranch hand who traced a suspicious smell to a prairiedog hole, lit his pipe as he peered into it-and woke up in the hospital. He had smelled natural...
...reasons for the failure of Woodrow Wilson's dream of a vigorous League of Nations, three were outstanding: 1) he conducted most of the postwar debate himself, thus became irrevocably committed on its details; 2) he presented his blueprint to Congress as a rigid specification, take it or leave it-and Congress left it; 3) the American people were suspicious of the kind of planning that emerged from the bickering diplomats at Versailles...
...rupees-My hotel bill in Colombo. That hotel always was bad, but since they've been expecting air raids, they built up a solid wall around it-and now it's like the inside of a tomb. There were two baths for my entire floor, and I had to keep my windows shut because otherwise the full blast of the monsoon slugged the black raindrops all over the room...
...world fighting a war of speed, a paralyzed nation, no matter how brave, cannot win victories. China knows this, the Allies know it-and the Allies also know that the easiest way to beat Japan may eventually be an attack through China. And so the Allies are doing all they can to help China keep herself alive...
...Ginsburg, by Arch Oboler for his Everyman's Theater series over NBC. A "stream of consciousness" item, hokum no matter how you build it-and Master Oboler builds it like crazy...