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Bella Vista was named by an optimist. The outlook from the white cubical villa, surmounted by four grotesque chimneys, is gloomy. Ancient, vine-tangled trees surround it like careless sentinels. The great cast-iron gate is rusty...
...misuse the expression "tinker's dam" by spelling it "tinker's damn" [TIME, Jan. 7]? ... The latter expression means nothing. A tinker's dam was really a dam made of clay, which the traveling tinkers used to surround a spot on a pan or kettle to keep the solder from spreading or running until it cooled, while [the utensil was] being repaired. As soon as the solder cooled, the dam was thrown away as useless and worthless. Hence . . . "tinker's dam" to denote something having no value...
...flew to Manila and marveled again: as the plane approached the city, the pilot circled over the hundreds of ships in the harbor, the vast supply dumps, the great runways at Nichols Field. When the plane landed, a crowd which had waited for hours burst past MPs to surround its famous passenger...
...Wavell doffed his uniform, was made a peer and Viceroy of India. The soldier became the proconsul. But he was unlike any other proconsul who had ever been seen in India. Hitherto it had been deemed a necessity to surround the Viceregal office with a pomp and pageantry that would dazzle even India's dazzling princes. Wavell's predecessor, Lord Linlithgow, a thrifty Scot, used to travel around India in a luxurious, cream-colored train because "Indians are impressed by these things." The new Viceroy arrived in India in a rumpled lounge suit. Instead of taking the royal...
...heavy-burdened Major General Albert C. Wedemeyer promised more aid to China. Hump-flown supplies have constantly increased. Means of distributing them more rapidly to front-line Chinese troops have been established through a new, topnotch supply organization. Wedemeyer began to surround himself with staff officers of a caliber not available to displaced General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell in China's earlier crises. For China's war effort, there was new life, new hope and heaven-sent weather...