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Last week, in the stifling summer heat of a makeshift courtroom outside Belgrade, the onetime hero of Yugoslav resistance was very tired. Prison-pale and peering myopically through his thick-lensed glasses, he tried wearily to turn aside the charges of his Partisan accusers. Seven hours a day, for three days, fortified by a breakfast of rum and tea, the bushy-bearded Chetnik answered their hammering questions and returned to his cell for a dinner of ham & cabbage, topped off by tall schooners of beer. But neither rum nor beer nor the efforts of two of Yugoslavia's best...
...Life Saver. Ingersoll plugged the Washington hole with a makeshift staff. To the 165,000 faithful, he had already prepared an appeal which he distributed this week. Said he: PM needs 100,000 new readers. In a PM-size, twelve page "Prospectus," Ingersoll blew the cap on PM's crisis-ridden history, in which he emerged as a combination Job and St. George of modern journalism...
...with which to efficiently conduct their activities. At least eight other groups, among them the Band, Orchestra, and Glee Club, need desk and filing space as well as the assurance that a room will always be available for their meetings. Phillips Brooks House, which has been serving as a makeshift meeting center, is badly overcrowded, and the post-war resumption of many activities will make the search for room even more difficult...
...high-ceilinged lobby was almost bare; there was now a bar and a barber shop (but no hot water). There was dancing every night in what had been the "Fiesta Pavilion," now roofed by makeshift sheets of galvanized iron. Bright decorations hid fire-blackened walls. The furniture was rickety, the silverware a jumble of designs-anything that could be borrowed. But Manila again had its galas. The "Grand Hotel" was now a symbol of hopeful days ahead: the Government hoped to have it spick & span, newly furnished by July 4, the day set for Philippine independence...
Wyatt accepted the inevitable fact that his program would have to start slowly. He proposed to begin by channeling labor and materials into temporary, makeshift housing-50,000 trailers, 200,000 living units in rebuilt war-housing. He scheduled early construction of 250,000 prefabricated dwellings...