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The monsoon was coming and the jungle air was saturated with the all-pervading damp, and with a sense of disaster. On a winding, roller-coaster trail hurried a pitiful file of refugees, fleeing from destruction, despair and defeat. At the head of the line, setting the pace with a...
Majority Leader McCormack had loyally led the Administration's fights for price control, but these pitiful cries were too much for him. Last week he demanded a 60-day suspension of meat price ceilings in order to get his people meat. Sixty days would give the Price Decontrol Board...
Meanwhile, pitiful remnants of Poland's Jews continued to flee the country by any means and with the utmost speed possible. TIME Correspondent John Scott last week estimated that within a year all the Jews would have left Poland, which once harbored four-fifths of all the Jews in...
The French Davis Cupsters were overconfident and undertrained. In Paris last week, they squeezed past Yugoslavia in the first two matches, then lost the rest. France's No. 2 star, Pierre Pellizza, looked so pitiful that he was withdrawn midway through the competition. The No. 1 star, balding, 6...
Riding about the pitiful ruins and damp, weedy shambles of recaptured Manila, G.I. jeep drivers used to refer to the Kweezon Bridge, Kweezon Boulevard, etc. However they mangled the name, sharp, dapper, bantam-sized Manuel Luis Quezon, (rhymes with stays on), late President of the Commonwealth, left his mark on...