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...Germans expended the absolute minimum on the conquered Ukrainians, extracted the utmost. For Russian handicraft products the Germans exchanged useless junk imported from the Reich. German firms opened offices in the large cities, blanketed the countryside with traveling salesmen. Solely to survive, some Ukrainians cooperated with the Nazis who had come to organize "free trade." Rather than starve, Russian bootblacks served German soldiers at street-corner stands. Other Russians opened photographic studios, candy shops, cafes. But even Berlin newspapers have admitted that the spirit of subservience to the Germans is rare in the Ukraine...
...dwellers. . . ." Born in Los Angeles, Cage was trained for the ministry, gave up the Church to study the piano in Europe. His steadfast fellow percussionist is his blonde wife Xenia Cage, surrealist sculptress, daughter of a Russian Orthodox priest. She helps Cage find his instruments of "unsuspected beauty" in junk yards and hardware stores...
...huzza for Staff Sergeant Dan Malmuth's letter this week. If a few more of our so-called men had got up on their hind legs and said the same thing a long time ago, all this Waacy-business might have ended up where it belongs-on the junk heap...
...Junk. In Middletown, Ind., when Carl Clinger's handsome new auto stalled on a railroad track, he got his old car, used it to push the new one off the track, got stuck halfway across, jumped just in time to watch a train smack both of them into smithereens. In Los Angeles, when the Homer Cliffords' auto stalled on a railroad track, confident Mrs. Clifford kept her seat while her husband tried to push the car off the track before a train arrived. She survived the impact...
...hungry eyes turned on the two large bronze rhinoceros in front of the Biology labs, Mom Hall's fancy trappings, and the shiny copper doors to the swimming pool. They will be satisfied, nevertheless, with the fences around the clubs, any old pianos in the College and sundry asseried junk...