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...Manchuria was Japan's last week. Harbin, last important city not occupied by Japanese troops, fell before the fierce frost-bitten fighters of General Jiro Ta-mon. Winter was Harbin's best defender. For seven days the fur-hatted Japanese columns struggled north over a frozen desolate country in a temperature of 30° below zero. Finally they closed in on the city from the west and south...
...beginning of every holiday the children leave school well-behaved, Gaelic-speaking young ladies and gentlemen. They return with nasal voices, a vast vocabulary of U. S. slang and little regard for discipline. When given an order by a teacher, instead of a polite "Ta go mait," or "Deanfaid me e," they answer: "I gotcha, boss." Skepticism is not expressed by a simple "Ni creidim e," but by a derisive "Oh, yeah?" or "Sez you?" When school is dismissed all the children rise and lustily shout: "Scram...
...Swedish soprano made many forget all these mumblings & grumblings last week. She was Goeta Ljungberg (pronounced Zhöta Yungberg), tall, blonde, beautiful. For her debut she sang Sieglinde in Die Walküre as if she really believed that sisters sometimes met their brothers far from nowhere, loved them instantly and consumingly...