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From a truck men brought six plain wood coffins. As the coffin nails were driven in, the crowd shouted over the dead bodies: "Sauvages! Salauds!" ("Beasts! Scum...
Warmly bundled up against the winter wind, an amateur ornithologist snooped around the shore line of Long Island last week to see what the scum of oil from torpedoed tankers was doing to the wild fowl. Oil is bad for ducks. It gets into their feathers and feed, makes them sick, keeps them from flying. The birdman was relieved to see only one miserable, oil-smeared duck...
...ever. They padded softly, bearing long cool drinks to the linened Dutch civilians, the officers in Dutch, U.S. and British khaki, white and blue. In the crowded, varied city itself, tropic life went on: in the shops of Chinese, impenetrable behind their prayerful squints; in murky canals thick with scum and bathing Indonesians; in streets hot and sunny between the frequent rains, pocked here & there by a Japanese bomb, but still busy with the traffic of a colonial capital...
...after 45 minutes in the water, from the torpedoed British Galatea (TIME, Dec. 29). He corrected first reports that he had been hospitalized afterwards in Alexandria-he had only gone to bed in a hotel. But he still suffers from severe headaches in consequence of shock and swallowing oil scum...
...Jollity Building is a semi-fictional corner of Times Square inhabited by the scum of Broadway. In the pool hall and in Jollity Danceland, which largely support the building, Mr. Liebling is less interested than in the "Indians," the "heels" and the "tenants," who use it for their "promotions." To promote means to cheat anyone "of a dollar, or any fraction or multiple thereof." and the essence of praise in the Jollity Building is, "he has promoted some very smart people." Everyone there is busy promoting everyone else...