Word: palme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last Japanese officers to surrender on Guam proved to be surprisingly well informed about world events for the ten months he had spent hiding in a palm-grove. It turned out he had been creeping up to the American lines at night and stealing copies of TIME'S Pony Edition from the Marines...
After he turns in his report in November, Joe Kennedy will go to Palm Beach for the winter. He says he has no political ambitions, that he is too old to return to public life. But he and Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes are close friends, and he and Harry Truman have high regard for each other. Joe Kennedy might still wind up in Washington...
Land of Romance. As the transport drew near the land, G.I.s swarmed to the rail, eyes misty with Technicolor anticipation. "The sun shone with an idiot brightness, but it was raining"-and out of the miasma loomed "dejected palm trees, a few worn mud buildings, aged water buffaloes . . . and a cluster of sickly natives, including several girls with rings in their noses who would never get a screen test." The G.I.s, stared in speechless horror- until "a colored soldier won immortality ... by throwing back his head and crying, in a long, high wail, 'Iran! Land of romance...
Symptoms: "Pain in the shoulder region, usually going down the upper arm as far as the elbow, and frequently . . . pain or tingling or both in the palm and fingers." Treatment: sunlamp irradiation, anesthetic massage...
...RendÓn meets nightly with his rapidly increasing following in the Café Paris campaign headquarters, enthusiastically talks politics, even more enthusiastically passes the hat for the "campaign fund." The "fund" provides a better living than RendÓn's pick-me-ups as palm-reader, indifferent painter and author of paid panegyrics for real politicos. (He has gained eight pounds since his nomination...