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...style apartment houses and the frescoed mansions of wealthy traders looked down on the colony's business section. Hong Kong's polyglot population-Chinese, Britons, Americans, Eurasians and White Russians-swirled along the narrow, arcaded sidewalks, pausing at the intersections to thread their way through a steady stream of Citroëns and Chevrolets, Buicks and Bentleys...
Drifting on a lazy stream of subconsciousness, some modern short-story writers seem to forget that they owe their reader-passengers a destination. Not so Scottish Neil (Behold Thy Daughter) Paterson, a canny navigator with some of Somerset Maugham's gift for piloting a narrative to home port. The China Run, eight stories long, boasts several twist-of-fate tales that are polished and sardonic enough to have been told by the Old Party himself...
...image of doctors muttering midnight incantations over the sufferings of mute beasts is ridiculous enough to make most non-Hearst readers laugh at the anti-vivisectionists. They should. Two years ago the anti-vivisectionists paraded a steady stream of pet-owners to the State House for hearings on the Miles-Nolan vivisection bill. They have now a marshaled stack of theological arguments, most of them stating that the merciful shall obtain mercy, and that what has been formed by God should not be deformed by man. In some places the anti-vivisectionists have become powerful enough to curtail medical research...
...until the reservoirs of moral and material strength within the French nation are turned into the stream of European defense, there will be no all-out effort, and NATO's new outline for action may result in too little, too late. As the senior partner in West Europe's defense, the U.S. this week was facing the duty and the right of insisting on a serious French rearmament effort...
Vollard's eye for the times was as sharp as his eye for art. Understanding the increasing importance of art reproductions, he published prints by his favorite artists in a steady stream of books and portfolios. Last week Washington's National Gallery was celebrating his taste and foresight with a show of fine Vollard prints ranging from Renoir through Cézanne to Rouault and Picasso...