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...With Thy blessing, we shall prevail.... Lead us to the saving of our country, and with our sister nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peace...
Dumb as a Fox. In Manhattan, 34-year-old Salvatore Toro convinced a judge that, although he had gone to school for eight years, he couldn't even spell out "cat," much less the notations on policy slips that police found at his home...
After four years at California's Pomona College and a spell with the Columbia School of Journalism, Mark Gaynre turned to Shanghai as foreign correspond ent for the Washington Post. On the side he worked for the famed Japanese news agency, Domei. "Rich, aggressive, news-wise and Empire-conscious," the agency inspired Gayn with "an almost pathologi cal curiosity about Japan." When Japan had begun its war with China, Domei did its best to keep Mark Gayn, nattered him, tolerated his anti-Japanese tirades in the Washington Post, even had him vaccinated for cholera and smallpox...
Against all this stood a stubborn fact of power politics: Greece is in the British sphere and Moscow knows it. The Kremlin can plan to cast a spell on Yugoslavia, but it cannot hope to manage Greece-unless the British so misplay their cards as to force the Greeks to join a Balkan Federation, cued from Moscow...
...adopt a new one of 42 letters so that each sound would have its own symbol. So wrote Shaw to the London Times last week. For years he has used Pitman shorthand to save time in writing. Said Shaw: "The fact that Russia, with its 35-letter alphabet, can spell my name with two letters [Wo ] instead of four may conceivably make it impossible for us to compete economically in the world with Russia...