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...they went they recruited an army even stranger than the land-a corps of Tuaregs, tall muscular men of reddish-yellow skin, long and silky black hair, small noses, delicate hands, Berbers whose women go barefaced but who themselves wear dark blue veils. They ride the extraordinary Mehari camel, which can travel 125 miles a day. They arm themselves with a straight, double-edged sword almost four feet long, daggers bound to their left forearms, and spears and leather shields...
Until last week Ernie Pyle, an inconspicuous little man, with thinning reddish lair and a shy, pixy face, was not celebrated as a straight news reporter. Once, for a few years, he was managing editor of he Washington News against his better judgment, distinguished himself by putting the arrest of Hauptmann, kidnapper of the Lindbergh baby, at the bottom of page 1. But five years ago Ernie left Washington, went to New Mexico for a rest. He sent some informal stories to the News about things and people around him, soon got a roving commission from Scripps-Howard to write...
...George V she said: "Ze Keeng-he ees tres gentil-zo zhentle, zo keeng." Of a shoe which was too small for even her No. 2 foot: ;'Eet ees no. I cannot enter." Pert and naive-looking with her big brown eyes, her childish face framed by a reddish pageboy bob, Lily Pons is to all appearances docile, even-tempered: she has all the French virtues, is genuinely kindly and cute comme un bou-ton-mais, zut alors, elle est shrewd, smart and has a will of iron. She has always worked hard, spends months preparing every role...
Grover Jones was a round, ruddy, bespectacled little man with a rim of reddish hair around his shiny bald head. Pounding up & down a room, swinging a long cigar through the air, he could tell the tallest tale in Hollywood. Inside the brick wall circling his two-acre property he kept a pony, a goat, 14 English sheep dogs, ducks, geese, chickens, ravens, down-&-out friends and relations, his father, his mother, his wife Sue. His profession was screenwriting, for which he received as much as $3,500 a week, $40,000 a script. He reached Hollywood from West Terre...
...agricultural districts irrigation projects have transformed semi-deserts into fertile land. The reddish soil of some of the regions of central Asia is almost fantastically fertile. Since the days of Tamerlane peoples have fought wars for water, have dug aryks (irrigation canals). In periods of peace when the primitive irrigation systems functioned well, the country bathed in prosperity. In wars the aryks were destroyed and the desert advanced again. Soviet irrigation systems for cotton land were completed under the first and second Five-Year Plans, but only in 1939 and 1940 did crop yields become impressive...