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This week, above the muddy water, the sun shone warm and bright. In the mountains warm rain and melting snows poured fresh torrents into the valleys, sent new flood peaks surging down on the Columbia's lowlands. Nearly 48,000 were homeless in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. The Red Cross estimated that it would be two months before those whose homes had not been destroyed could return. Over all the stricken Northwest, 26 had lost their lives...
Outside, the sun shone on resplendent Dutch tulips. In The Hague's 18th Century Ridderzaal (Knights' Hall), Britain's Winston Churchill, the greatest of living Europeans and perhaps the greatest of living men, stood forth, pink and pleased...
...hung out of their windows to see what was happening. Curfew was in force because the rebels had shelled the town with 65 mm. cannon a few nights before. Out in the countryside the scent of almond blossoms filled the damp air. Overhead the sky was clear and stars shone back from puddles of water and the shallow streams we crossed. Occasionally, glowworms, kicked up by the horses' hooves, lit the path...
Gabler has not started since the Freshman-Jayvee opener, although he has seen action in relief roles since. Meears has shone in relief assignments and, in his debut as a starter against Brown last week, he held the Cubs to two hits and a run in a brilliant, 11-inning mound stint...
...week at Josefsberg in the Russian Zone of Austria a Red Army soldier had a quarrel in a nightclub; he came back later with a Tommy gun, sprayed the dance floor with bullets, killed the band leader and a customer, wounded more than a dozen. In Britain, country fields shone dazzling green in the clean light, and London shop girls carried home small bouquets of daffodils in the Underground...