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Brooklyn's Public School No. 12 first became aware of him when a fire ax came flying out of the principal's office. After the ax came a boy about 5 ft. tall, a stranger in P.S. 12. He wore a peaked cap, a black leather jacket, and yellow trousers with blue stripes down the seams. When a crowd began to gather, the boy took to his heels, led a chase through the corridors, turned a corner and vanished...
...test, a license, a waiver of the 72 hours' invalidity. They tear in just under the wire for a grimy little civil ceremony that is shattered to bits by the passage of elevated trains. There follows a beautiful, bleak scene in an off-hours lunchroom where a munching stranger at the next table looks on and listens in as they droop over their inedible food, trying to fight off their bewilderment, their disappointment, their misery, their freezing shyness...
...afternoon in 1903 a Princeton student fell into a chance conversation with a stranger on a trolley. The stranger was a missionary, and what he had to say persuaded the student to go to India for a few months' work among the Untouchables. Last week, after 41 years in India, big, burly, British-born Sam Higginbottom, 70, left his "temporary" job and came back to the U.S. for good...
...Nothing stranger has occurred in the Pacific war than the Tenth Army landings on Okinawa. Soldiers and marines stepped ashore with slightly more opposition than they would have had in maneuvers off the coast of California. To say merely that they were bewildered is to gild the lily of understatement. Where was the withering machine-gun fire? Where were the murderous 320-mm. mortars, the gin. rockets? Where were the fanatic Japs? They were not defending the west coast of Okinawa from north of Kadena southward half way to Naha...
...Envoys. Tall, white-haired "Bernie" Baruch, veteran adviser to Presidents, is no stranger to the heady reparations problem. As an adviser on reparations, he went with Woodrow Wilson to the Versailles Peace Conference, jousted with Clemenceau and Lloyd George...