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...found out at the moment what the attitude of the banks will be, but it will be a sturdy clerk who can stand up under the droves of old grads who, if they follow instructions, will place in his hands their watches, Phi Bete keys, straw hats, Ming vases and souvenir footballs. Mark our words, some innocent grad will be a final straw on the back of some poor teller and will say, "I'm Harold Sturver '17. I have here a valuable..." only to have the wicket slammed in his face. This sort of thing inevitably causes confusion...
...slate blue. U.S. Army and Air Force men in their brown blouses and "pink" slacks. The British have the third floor, U.S. officers the second floor. On the first floor is the promise of even wider cooperation. There are quartered the Chinese, headed by Major General Chu Shih-ming; there also are the beginnings of representation for The Netherlands, Australia...
Five formations of Japanese planes roared from northern Indo-China to Kun ming on the Burma Road, bombed supply-depots and machine-gunned truck convoys in the first air attack on the Road since last spring...
...machinery of the National Defense Mediation Board, which had been hum ming for eight months, finally coughed and groaned to a virtual halt. When the board's decision went against John Lewis in the captive-mine dispute, C.I.O. members resigned and C.I.O. withdrew its disputes from the board's dominion. Since C.I.O. and labor disputes are practically synonymous, the board was left with no work to do. Last week in Washington, board stenographers polished their bright red fingernails; some board members went off to fish...
...Correspondent Steele met Major General Liu Teh-ming. General Liu had gone to Shanghai, attempted to worm his way into the confidence of Arch-Traitor Wang Ching-wei's underlings, was suspected, taken to No. 76. First the chief of the torturers used persuasion; then, says General...