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Last week, ex-Mayor Stranger was back home again. With him and the new mayor, Frank Dibben, some of Southampton's 25,000 school children were lined up in the Bassett Green schoolyard (see cut) to wish a merry Christmas to far-off Chambersburg and to collect their share (five apiece) of the ripe, red-cheeked Pennsylvania apples that tasted as sweet as a promise made and kept...
...that time the crowd numbered 5,000 and was eager for action. Police arrived too late. Jews were lured out of the building by men in army uniforms who promised them safe conduct, then turned them over to the mob. Twenty-seven victims were taken to a nearby schoolyard and knifed, clubbed or stoned to death. Seven more were killed after being dragged from a train. At week's end 41 Jews and four Gentiles were dead, and as many more were gravely injured. Among the dead was Dr. Kahane, whose face was unrecognizable...
...long years of war, news from embattled China funneled through the tumbledown, mud-&-lath buildings of the Chungking Press Hostel. Last week, the last of the foreign-press corps followed the Central Government to Nanking. The bamboo-fenced compound looked as dreary and forsaken as an empty schoolyard-which...
...Summons. On the stroke of 6 o'clock, the President acted. After talking briefly to all five men, he summoned Ben Fairless to his office alone and told him, in the blunt terms of a schoolmaster settling a schoolyard fight, that he wanted the strike stopped...
...wartime years had left their mark. Weeds grew around once immaculate service stations, in many a gravel drive and rural schoolyard. Vermont's neglected pastures were overrun with purple bergamot, and Louisiana's bayous with orchidlike water hyacinth. Fireweed grew on steep acres of newly logged land in the Western foothills. But in its broad sweep, in color and loom of hill, the land was unchanged...