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World War II has brought a spate of innovations, ranging from the G.I.-adopted Shangri-La (designating a comfort-station in the South Seas) to the experienced tires hopefully advertised by second-hand automobile dealers. Only in the field of creative swearing, concludes Author Mencken, has American verbal fecundity sunk as low as Britain...
...Admiral William F. Halsey's Third Fleet against northern Honshu and Hokkaido had failed to lure out the remnants of the Japanese air force. The weather over Hokkaido was foul; the low overcast blocked the efforts of flyers from Vice Admiral John S. McCain's flagship Shangri-La (and her many sister carriers) to find the fields where the Jap planes were supposed to be skulking. Not a single Kamikaze roared over the fleet...
...four points of the compass without much deliberation or any reference to their professional usefulness," there were among them "twelve seamstresses and mantua-makers but not a saddler, two watchmakers but , . . only 36 farmers and field laborers to feed the large population, still swelling like a tide." Impossible Shangri-La. Owen's earthly paradise was soon torn by dissension and engulfed by practical economics. In less than three years it was all over. New Har mony, lodestar of dreamers and crackpots from all over the earth, was sold to a moon-faced cardsharp and forger who promptly opened...
...Harmony has gradually become as rationally imperfect as other places - perhaps a little more so. The local theater owner still complains of the week he showed Lost Horizon. "The farmers saw no sense in the damned thing, Shangri-La, snow one minute and warm sunlight with green leaves the next. Such things simply could not happen, they say - and would rather see something that is at least pos sible, like Shirley Temple...
...much honored again this year to announce the annual meeting of that international fraternity, Sigma Epsilon Chi. The boys will hold their sixty-ninth reunion at the Hotel Touraine after a dinner at the Shangri...