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...Communists had even cracked south into Central China, after giving the bonfire treatment to long stretches of the vital Lunghai railway. One-eyed Communist General Liu Po-cheng and some 100,000 men were snug in the rugged Tapieh hills, just northeast of Hankow-a constant menace to the Yangtze valley...
...Insuring snug conditions in the wettest weather is a brand new $20,000 skylight, which looks down onto the newly-installed Oregon pine balcony saucer...
...called The Poet. Then he has to convince them that he is the husband of The Poet's wife (Jane Wyman). This offers a chance for a tedious kind of bedroom humor from which westerns used to be a refuge; at one point Mr. Morgan and Miss Wyman, snug under separate blankets, even play footie. Entertaining moment: Janis Paige, bulging a skintight costume and singing Cheyenne, a pretty nice oat-fed tune...
...snug atmosphere of Chiang Kaishek's sitting room-among the potted plants, old scrolls, Sung urns and leather chairs-the 20-year single-party monopoly of the Kuomintang (National People's Party) was, nominally, coming to an end. The Generalissimo ran his eye over the hand-charactered document. "Hao hao!" he exclaimed, "let us sign and have this copy as a souvenir." Across the agreement for a coalition government, the spokesman for the Young China Party, the Democratic Socialists, and the nonparty independents added their brushstroke signatures to Chiang's own Kuomintang endorsement...
Many a retiring general and admiral had landed a snug industrial job: the Seabees' Admiral Ben Moreell, onetime Coal Administrator, as chairman of the board of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.; the Army Service Forces' General Brehon Somervell as president of Koppers Co., Inc. of Pittsburgh, at a $75,000 salary; wartime ordnance chief Lieut. General Levin H. Campbell Jr. as an International Harvester Co. vice president; Lieut. General Jimmy Doolittle as vice president of Shell Union Oil Corp...