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...being employed by other Irish, for Eire faces several acute war-born shortages. Coal and gasoline are so scarce that Irish trains have grown fewer and less predictable than ever; many passenger buses are being discontinued. After a generation of disuse, sailing-boat transports sail again. Dublin streets swarm with hundreds of awkward, new bicycle riders, and Dubliners who own autos have hitched horses to them. Paraffin is so scarce that Donegal peasants now use rushlights, make candles from mutton fat. Fisherfolk in the western islands are catching shark for oil to light homemade lamps. This spring the wheat shortage...
...Tokyo the air was softening. It was the time of year when people began to watch for the gentle pink and white rioting of cherry blossoms in the parks. On weekends families would swarm by thousands from the rickety alleys of the Asakusa and Honjo working-class districts, where they had nervously hung blackout shades in their flimsy houses. By foot or bus or train they would take to the parks-to Asakusa, with its booths of cheap souvenirs and its great red temple of Kwannon; to Uyeno, with its museums and galleries; or to Shiba, with its tree-shrouded...
Hangout for Broadway's anonymous, footsore young actors is the vast, bare-tabled, coffee-smelling basement of Walgreen's drugstore in Times Square. Into this "poor man's Sardi's," every noon, swarm the occupants of a thousand hall bedrooms, to eat and table-hop, jam the phone booths, swap hard-luck stories, pick up casting tips. Lately they have also been coming to buy a nickel's worth of reading matter...
...Five cruisers, eight destroyers, some 20 submarines, a swarm of small torpedo boats...
John Budge Alcorn '45 is managing the whole "Follies" show, assisted by a loyal swarm of satellites who man committees on everything from organization of the show to its morality. Other halls in the Yard may contribute acts to the show if their productions can be brought up to the standards of the casting committee...