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...soldiers & sailors are bored, homesick, frustrated by language difficulties. They resent the fact that many Chinese have marked them as fall guys. Pickpockets and petty thieves prey on them. More ostensibly respectable Chinese gyp them openly. When Navymen began swarming ashore at Shanghai, the swank Park Hotel jacked its liquor prices 50%. Nightclub proprietors-Chinese and foreign-vie with each other in trying to take U.S. servicemen for all they can get. Ricksha drivers double and treble their fares. Waiters sneer at anything less than four times the conventional...
Last week Sarah Lawrence's 295 bobby-soxed, sloppy-joed undergrads listened intently to the inaugural speech of their new president, Harold Taylor. They were as relentlessly serious as any U.S. coeds, perhaps more so. "I resent having [the college] called a country club," said one of them. "I'm going tearing in town for the weekend, but I'll be back Monday wearing blue jeans...
...right mind would have thought otherwise than that Germany would win the war?" . . . (The hoots swelled into a roar.) Screamed Laval: "I am not a Nazi. I am not a fascist. ... I hate war-even when we win, and we always lose. ... I love the republic. ... I resent being called Pétain's 'evil genius...
...S.M.U. In Dallas, Tex., for instance, hard-working volunteers have raised one-third of a needed $1,500,000 for Southern Methodist University. Donors and prospects, who have dealt only with the volunteers or university officials, might resent the idea of outside, professional direction in the drive. But if the missing million appears by the deadline, March 1, S.M.U. can thank the smooth, self-effacing American City Bureau, of Chicago, which set up the campaign and then stood discreetly aside to watch the volunteers collect. The saving in time, chaos and personal irritation should be well worth A.C.B...
Southerners generally resent any Federal infringement on their State-right to solve their own problems: they have also been prone to leave those problems unsolved. Last week an extraordinary meeting took place in Atlanta, Ga. Its purpose: to prod Southerners into airing some of their dirty linen before the Federal Government steps in and washes it for them...