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Until last week, Author Carl Crow's reputation rested on his richly flavored understanding of the Chinese, his long-term hatred of the Japs. His 400 Million Customers (1937), the fruit of his 26 years of successful journalism and advertising in the Orient, became a best-seller in nine...
The regimental balls are getting better and better, at least as far as company Baker is concerned. That quiet reserve and dignity you observed probably can be credited to the Baker wives, most of whom have made their way to Cambridge by now . . . . The boys who got amphib are scaring...
Outside, on the sunbathed square and under the balconies of Bay Street, Bahaman blacks shuffled through their work or rested in the warm sun. The bars at the Prince George and the Rozelda waited for recess and brisk trade. Beyond the town and the deep blue water of the Gulf...
When Mexico's thin, redheaded El Fakir was unnailed from the simulated cross on which he had spent 488 hours, 45 minutes (TIME, Sept. 27) and taken to the Sanatorio Mexicano, Catholic nuns refused to minister to him. He rested four days; then, against doctor's orders, rose...
-Diz averaged 20 wins a year in five and a half seasons until a line drive in the 1937 All-Star game broke his toe. Diz rested for a fortnight, then tried out a new delivery that favored the bad foot. "There was a loud crack in my shoulder, and...