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...Japanese, reached its spectacular climax last week at Canton. Dynamite charges carefully laid a few days before under the principal public buildings, factories and utility plants of South China's No. 1 city and No. 1 port, were touched off as the Japanese approached. Great fires sprang up, blazed over an area of several square miles. With Canton spurting smoke and flame, Chinese dynamiters wrecked the $8,000,000 Pearl River Bridge. The foreign quarter on Chameen Island was saved from catching fire only by a sudden shift in the wind...
...Comtesse de Paris did not appear, but suddenly a door sprang open and the aide de camp of "Prince Henri, Comte de Paris et Dauphin de France" announced, with the traditional French royal reverence, " Monseigneur...
...defense sprang hard-boiled Novelist James M. Cain (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Serenade). Describing himself as one "known all over Baltimore as Sourpuss." Mr. Cain wrote to the Sim: "Polo is played by many different kinds of people now. ... [It is] within the means of most, even those of us who are on relief, as I have the honor...
...help of Nick Bogomoletz sprang White Russians from California and over the U. S., who did not like to speculate on his fate if he turned up in Russia in 1938. Radio Commentator Boake Carter was not alone in comparing Alien Bogomoletz favorably with Alien Bridges. By last week, when the record of the Bogomoletz case was forwarded to Madam Secretary Perkins with the recommendation that he be deported to Latvia, it had become almost as famed as the Bridges case. Meantime, Nicholas Bogomoletz and Anna Zaporojschuk, who have a 15-year-old daughter, had finally married...
...only tolerably public interest. Then it was presented to the nation and suddenly became an important ruin. Archeologists quarreled over whether Stonehenge was once a druidical temple, a Saxon sepulchre or a sun temple, whether it was early Bronze Age or earlier Neolithic. Meanwhile, rows of teashops, bungalows, airdromes sprang up nearby. Ten years ago these were ordered razed within a mile radius of Stonehenge...