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...Whitehall for more troops, built up the native army from four to six battalions, and launched a vast resettlement scheme to separate the Communists from their sources of supply. His men razed whole villages for aiding the Reds and penned up 120,000-Malayan Chinese. He constantly left his snug headquarters at Kuala Lumpur to roam the jungles in his car, his official red-striped pennant a conspicuous target for snipers. He became, as he intended, a symbol of British determination and doggedness...
...blocky, bubbly ex-Tyrolean, Bemelmans has turned out a score of illustrated books, has won a snug niche in current popular art. His firmly funny India ink lines are backed by broad, patternmaking blobs of color that are cool as summer showers. He is like Raoul Dufy, James Thurber and Peter Arno tossed into salad and marinated in strong dark beer...
...attacking Chinese last fortnight was caused by the U.S. 2nd Division's 23rd Regiment, commanded by Colonel John F. Chiles of Independence, Mo. This week, the Peking radio wishfully announced that John Chiles had been captured. Recalling the memorable denial of his fellow Missourian, Mark Twain, the colonel, snug in his command post on the east-central front, resisted the temptation to say that the Peking report was "greatly exaggerated." Said he, simply: " Tain't true...
...studied art hard, and before he was 20 Turner knew about all there was to learn about painting pretty pictures of castles, ruined abbeys and snug landscapes. Trips on the Continent vastly broadened his range. He enjoyed the old masters without often caring to imitate them, for Turner's drive was toward an art of the future-impressionism-not toward the past. But each new view he had of the world struck Turner as a challenge; he tackled and translated into paint everything from Alpine peaks and torrents down to Venetian gondolas and delicately tinted palaces. Turner studied...
Early this week the deadly snow was still coming down and new slides threatened snug Alpine valleys. Already, in Austria, Switzerland and northern Italy, 177 people had been killed...