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Somewhere in eastern Asia, probably at Rangoon, members of the Unified Allied Supreme Command (see p. 17) met this week to make ready an Allied success. There a good man reported to his chief on one of the shortest, strangest and grimmest commands ever held by a British general...
Between these horses stands George Kame, promoter of the strangest market in the U.S.: the week-long horse-trading convention held every summer at Almond, N.Y. Last week, 20,000 traders and spectators joined in the fun, traded 1,800 horses, bought countless bottles of beer and soda pop from the refreshment stands which are Promoter Kame's main source of profit. Swapping went on furiously all day and most of the night; some horses changed hands a dozen times. Included were some good work horses, a few riding horses. But most were plugs worth less than $25; some...
...life. He disliked the country intensely, regarded it as "a waiting room plastered with Swiss views." But in the 13th-Century Muzot Castle, he delivered his final elegies: those tremendous, all but murderous mysteries of mind, swarming with "exciting, dangerous, forbidding" angels, which Mrs. Butler calls "the strangest perhaps of all the strange poems our century has produced." Rilke is one of the most difficult of poets to translate; but this passage on angels will faintly suggest both his quality and the violence of the Muzot experience...
...morning; Germany had declared war on Russia. President Roosevelt in his second-floor study in the White House faced the strangest and perhaps the most momentous turn of World War II. It was something which he had not dared hope for. And it might turn out to be the luckiest military break for the U.S.-outside of an outright defeat for Germany in battle-that the President could have hoped...
...farmers are now feeling the strangest shortage of the war to date: a shortage of Okies...