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Dreadful Spew. The Portland was a 291-ft. side-wheeler, trim with white and gold paint, and to Boston's fond eye, as slick as a schoolmarm's leg. On the Saturday after Thanksgiving, 1898, many families were returning to Maine after holiday visits to Boston. Despite storm warnings, the skipper decided he could make Portland ahead of the blow. Shortly after dark, with 176 people aboard, he cast off. The Portland disappeared down the channel into a swirl of snow...
...this time Chiang had become a world figure. But to 80% of the Chinese people -the peasants-he was still little known. Their attitude could be expressed in the bitter story of the farmer whose homestead had been overrun by both the Nationalists and the Communists. "Which side," he was asked, "is better...
...dissolute mother of 13. If mother & brood went Communist, that was solely because of her moral disorders. One had, after all, brought the jelly; only so many calves had so many feet; and there were the deserving poor, the non-corrupt poor, the understandable poor on the west side of the village who had to have some jelly...
...they selected some 60 minutes of outstanding events. Humorist James Thurber listened to the records and, over a weekend, wrote a 10,000-word critique, recommending a new and faster opening and more condensation. The collaborators went to work again and finished up with the present tightly knit ten-side album...
...last week really expected to see Navy (which hadn't won a game all season) beat Army (which hadn't lost all season). But the midshipmen, taking inspiration from another upset, ran up a sign saying "Gallup Picks Army" and another one saying "Harry Is On Our Side...