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Along the East Coast and in the Southwest, the U.S. was hot and dry last week. Rain came in dribbles, or not at all, and temperatures sizzled above 100°. In other parts of the country grain, vegetables and fruit grew fat and ripe. But there were not enough men, women & children to gather them in, store and process them. The U.S. food supply was running a dangerous race against: 1) drought, 2) manpower troubles...
...Confusion. The Wehrmacht had used the interim since Benito Mussolini's passing to entrench itself in strategic Northern Italy. If the Allies had been ready to invade at that time, Italy might well have fallen like a ripe plum. Now they would face at least organized German resistance. Now Italy may not only be fought over by the Allies and Germans, but perhaps be torn first by civil...
Many realists among Republican exiles felt certain that the time was far from ripe for practical action. London and Washington still stood on good diplomatic terms with Madrid. Unless they were ready to add intervention in Spain to their other problems, there was little they could yet do to bring to pass Socialist Leader Indalecio Prieto's modest proposal: that the Spanish people, in accordance with the Atlantic Charter, be allowed freely to elect their own government...
Tired, old and most beloved Lin Sen, President of the Republic of China, died this week ripe with 81 eventful years. His death came as no surprise. On May 12, while on his way to receive the credentials of Canada's first Minister to China, venerable Lin Sen suffered a stroke. Since then, while Buddhists, Mohammedans and Christians alike prayed for his recovery, the gentle greybeard had lain half-paralyzed...
...Cooper Square, where Manhattan's skidroad-the Bowery-ends. McSorley's has also provided a haven for Manhattan's literary transients-writers, newshawks, painters, poets (grateful Poet e. e. cummings once immortalized mcsorley's: "Inside snug and evil. ... the Bar tinkling luscious jigs dint of ripe silver with warmlyish wetflat splurging smells waltz the glush of squirting taps. . . ." The venerable saloon still has soup bowls instead of cash registers, gas lights over the bar, a rack of clay and corncob pipes for free smokes on the house. Under portraits of Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley...