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Down Once. Black George, founder of the line, left his swineherd's hut to become the scourge of Serbia's Turkish masters. He was a choleric, heroic breeder of pigs and rebellion. He loved corn pone, plum brandy and killing (with his own hands he slew 125 men who provoked his anger; he stabbed his stepfather, hanged his brother...
...plum tree flooded with white birds, the clean curve of a plow as it comes dripping from the earth, the tuck-tuck of mah-jongg tablets, the faltering steps of a blind man on a moonlit night, Chungking in the mist, the whistle of unseen leaves-all these, in Payne's record, are as ineluctably part of China's life as the suffering, corruption, brutality and terror bred by foreign and domestic wars...
...plum-plump dictator approached his ninth anniversary as Chief of the Spanish State, the tree was shaken vigorously at a typically spectacular rally in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. There Russian anger and British impatience with the lingering Fascist regime were semi-officially proclaimed. Cried Nikolai Novikov, Soviet charge d'affaires in the U.S.: "The peoples of the Soviet Union hope that General Franco, this hireling of Hitler and Mussolini, will receive what is coming to him and his regime of Fascist dictatorship will be abolished...
...plum of reclaimed servicemen was probably cotton-topped Stan Kozlowski, a seemingly sure All-America. Kozlowski reported to Holy Cross, cockily asked for and got No. 77, Red Grange's old number...
...home construction, on starvation corner for the past three years, became the first industry to get a full-ripe postwar plum. From the War Production Board came the announcement: as of Oct. 15, order L-41, limiting construction of new houses to an $8,000 outlay, will be completely withdrawn (TIME, Sept. 10). Thus builders got the go-ahead for their biggest boom yet, almost entirely free of Government control...