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...beyond that she would not say. The other departing Cabinet officers were more definite about their futures. Francis Biddle would take up lawyering in Philadelphia. Frank Walker would go back to his chain of Pennsylvania and New York movie theaters. Claude Wickard took on at once his ten-year plum as Rural Electrification Administrator...
Beyond being Hammerstein's biggest plum, Oklahoma! may have started his greatest partnership. He and Composer Rodgers have a second smash in Carousel; as Broadway producers, they are cleaning up on John van Druten's I Remember Mama; under the title of Williamson Music Inc. (both their fathers were named William), they are highly successful music publishers; Hollywood is excited over the forthcoming cinemusical they have made of State Fair; and they have plans afoot for another Broadway show...
Tired Chungking shook off winter's grey chill, admired the flowering plum and magnolia trees, found comfort in the promise of spring. In her eighth springtime of war, China was bearing an accumulated burden of inflation, hunger, disease, political disunity and military retreat. But somehow the nation was still holding together, and the Government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had come back-a little way-from last fall's near-collapse...
Part of the menace, some Chileans feared, was nearer home. They muttered darkly about reactionary elements in their own country which might welcome Argentine help in overthrowing their democracy. The iron and coal in southern Chile were a tempting plum to Argentine militarists eager to promote their armament program. And around Valdivia was Chile's incompletely assimilated colony of Germans, not all of whom Chileans trust...
...south of Bitche, Balck attacked at Rimling, on the west shoulder of the Bitche salient. He also renewed his attacks on the French from the Colmar pocket, drove to within ten miles of Strasbourg. Considering the relatively small forces involved, Strasbourg's recapture would be a juicy political plum for the Nazis...