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...Mournful Wind. All around are the ruins of a once great city: gutted buildings, jagged walls without ceilings, acres of desolation through which the mildest wind blows a mournful plaint. Through the ruins to the East Gate Market come those who try to sell their few belongings to buy food. So, one day this week, came a stooped old man with dull eyes and a wispy beard, dressed in a soiled grey robe and a bedraggled Panama hat. Under his arm he carried a thick, paper-covered Bible, in Korean characters. He asked 3,000 won (50? at Army exchange...
...which no doubt explains the increased cost of hairdressing in American establishments. Most of these paintings have been worked over again and again with fine and feeble brushstrokes, in the manner of late Victorian anecdotal art, and it is disheartening to find so much labor expended to produce the mildest electric shocks...
...cloak-and-stiletto work . . . [It] will not merely mean that many persons will suffer for acts that they did not commit, or for acts that were legal when committed, or for no acts at all. Far worse is the end result, which will be that critics, even of the mildest sort, will be frightened into silence . . ." Loyalty oaths for teachers are utterly useless, said Hutchins, "for teachers who are disloyal will certainly be dishonest; they will not shrink from a little perjury...
This winter the western half of the U.S. got its worst weather in history, and the eastern half some of its mildest. The U.S. Weather Bureau, looking on the dark (or cold) side, regards the 1948-49 winter as the hardest ever-worse in most respects than the winter of 1937. The records are not all in (spring does not come officially until March 21), but already the bureau has a fine collection of weather aberrations and never-befores...
Angles & Stuff. If few Washington correspondents cared much for Arthur Henning's copy, most of them were fond of him personally. A gentle, friendly little man with iron-grey hair and a big, upturned grin, he is, in the words of a veteran colleague, "the nicest, mildest-mannered guy you'd ever want to meet. Then you read that stuff he writes and it's startling...