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Toward the Foe. It was still early morning when Willkie walked through the streets of deserted Tungkwan toward the river's edge. He ducked through a hole and entered the labyrinth of dugouts and trenches which are the strongest Chinese fortification in North China. Communication trenches were cut deep in the yellow ground and covered with logs and earth. They led to a point overlooking the river bend. The trenches fed into concrete rifle and machine-gun emplacements, from which a screen of fire could be dropped on any attempted river crossing. Willkie's burly shoulders...
Like awed Lilliputians entering a Brobdingnagian labyrinth, the House Ways & Means Committee this week faced the job of converting half of U.S. industrial manpower, horsepower, purchasing power to war, without wrecking the other half. The means: taxes, of which the Treasury offered a plan to raise another $8 billions (see p. 75), and borrowing...
...above every great city of the earth, and the shelters are crowded, and a civilization, if it is ending, is no less surely germinal. In one great warning work of literature after another, meanwhile, a similar mental cavern is retreated to and explored (Joyce's was a Dedalean Labyrinth). Levin quotes St. John's "Except a grain of wheat fall into the earth and die, it abideth by itself alone, but if it die, it beareth much fruit." That, says he, is "the burden of the manifold texts of Finnegans Wake," and of Dostoevski, Tolstoy, Ibsen, Zola, Gide...
...right. She was a 1,300-Ib. Holstein, a runaway from a herd of 28 unloaded that day from Wisconsin. Heading back toward the farm, she had wandered along a creek bed which leads into the labyrinth of sewers under the city...
...Angeles Judge Clement L. Shinn last week finished a long and lonesome job of unraveling a complicated lawsuit against the super-complicated empire of William Randolph Hearst. Concluding his verdict, Judge Shinn complained mildly of the difficulty of attempting a one-man exploration of the labyrinth, suggested that the facts in such a case should be reviewed by three judges before an appeal were taken. But at week's end it appeared that no appeal might ever be taken. Both sides thought they...