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...advanced to meet Major General Chaudhuri, commander of India's ist Armored Division and field leader of the invasion. They shook hands, lit cigarettes and talked quietly while spellbound villagers looked on. Said Chaudhuri: "You'll have to clean up the Razakars." El Edroos nodded, looking slightly pale. He was also commissioned to hold Hyderabad City, which had not been entered by Indian troops. Snapped Chaudhuri: "See that there is no trouble...
...four-letter words . . ." This complaint, in which Burges Johnson concurs, would be perfectly sound if cursing were entirely a verbal matter, but it is not. Its effect is proportionate to the kidney of the curser. The four-letter banalities that bore Mr. Mencken might suffice to turn him pale when uttered in foulness of spirit. Likewise, the most horrible oaths in the language can sound like pink tea if pronounced in a sterile tone. Professor Johnson does not go into the profundities of profanity. Treating it as a branch of literature and as an anthropological study...
Through it all, pale, ineffectual Friedensburg pattered back & forth between Allied offices and his own; he wore the disapproving and distressed look of a butler at a tea party when one of the guests has dropped an éclair on his mistress' finest carpet. In the middle of a lame press conference which he had summoned, word came that the Soviet-sector police had arrived in force, were swarming all over the building. For a while the reason was not clear; then it was learned that 46 West-sector police in plainclothes, summoned by Friedensburg, were trapped...
Operating through a few unions which they control (e.g., fire brigades, electrical workers, bakers & confectioners, vehicle builders, foundry workers), the Commies tried first to defeat a motion condemning unofficial strikes. Pale, shock-haired Communist Abe Cohen of the Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers leaped to the rostrum and attacked the motion as "a challenge to the integrity of the rank & file and an insult to their intelligence...
...tall, pale, olive-skinned man, Bing got his start 28 years ago managing concert artists in Vienna, his native city (he is now a British subject). He learned a bit more working with state and municipal opera houses in Germany, then went to England in 1934 as a director and general manager of John Christie's fledgling Glyndebourne company. When war came, Glyndebourne folded up for the duration. Bing got a job managing a chain of department stores...