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...Laos, remain forever afterward vaguely inattentive and quietly dissolute in manner. But last week the French had put aside love and proverbs for a hard look at Laos' defenses: under King Sisavang Vong's banner (a field of red with three white elephants under a white parasol), Laos could muster only 10,000 trained & tried soldiers and 13,000 armed but untried men, all with French officers...
There was no doubting Xavier's success. Starting out from Goa, he sailed and walked through southern India, Malaya and the Celebes, then to Japan. His only equipment was a breviary, his Mass kit and a large parasol to protect him from the sun. He impressed Malay sultans and Japanese feudal barons with his poise, and he could sway the commonfolk by his zeal. In three months on the island of Amboina he baptized 1,200. Some of his missionary conquests were permanent-there are Christian Indians today whose ancestors he converted. Others, like his great Japanese mission, were...
Detroit gave Ike a parade down Woodward Avenue to Cadillac Square. Paper showered down and cheers echoed loudly among the tall buildings. A man leaned out of a window and shouted: "Make him fight, Mamie, make him fight!" Mamie, carrying a red-and-white silk parasol, blew kisses at the crowd...
...politics kept discreetly out of sight. The one woman who showed up with a bright red "I Like Ike" parasol drew not a glance from the man she liked. Instead, Ike punctiliously went through the military forms: he stood at hand salute during his 17-gun honors, shook hands down the civilian and military ranks, and strode briskly across the ramp to review the honor guard. When he was led up to the microphones with Mamie on his arm, Ike grinned and said casually: "As I suppose is very natural under the circumstances, all lesser emotions are drowned...
These characters whirl around the edges of The Limit like the fringe on a parasol. But at the center, holding the story up, stands Romer Wyburn, one of those proverbial Britons who scarcely ever open their mouths. "I thought he was a strong silent man, a man with an orange up his sleeve," complains his flighty wife (whom he adores), "but I've never seen the orange." Romer silently ignores her affair with a playboy until, reaching "the limit," he suddenly fetches out of his sleeve not an orange but a sledge hammer. One blow from Romer...