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...only casualty in this involved process was Lockett, who had to interview Giannini on the wide-open sun deck of his hotel and on the unsheltered Florida beaches. "Oh," said Giannini, "you'll tan." Lockett knew better. As usual, he just burned and peeled...
...Pakistan, a dream of Moslem students before it became a political issue, was originally concocted from P for Punjab, A for the Afghans of the North-West Frontier, K for Kashmir, S for Sind, "pure" in Tan from Urdu, with "stan" Baluchistan. means "Pak" also "Land of the means Pure." Last week the League convention defined it to embrace Punjab, Sind, Baluchistan, North-West Frontier Province (all in northwestern In dia), Assam and most of Bengal (in the north east). Jinnah has even advocated a thousand-mile corridor across Hindustan to connect the two parts...
...anyone . . . try to survive and keep his family alive, to furnish a pleasant place to live with bits of this and that, to manage eggs from wrongly fed and badly housed chickens, to scrape and tan animal furs for family use, to wash and spin wool, with homemade soap and homemade spinning wheel, to finish the winter evenings by the light of a potato-lamp (with its improvised wick set in melted fat in a hollowed-out potato!). The effort is sure to leave him with the greatest indifference toward the "literature of despair...
That afternoon, after munching cheese sandwiches and a hard-boiled egg, Hirohito started out again. At a home for war sufferers he was visibly moved as he guided his pointed tan shoes from dingy room to dingy room. He spotted a soldier with a wooden leg, addressed the man's wife: "Where did your husband get wounded?" "The Philippines," answered the woman. "Ah so," said the Emperor. "In the Philippines. Ah so. You have children. I'm sorry. This place is rather cold. But it will become warmer. I hope you will cheer up." The woman bawled. Embarrassed...
...picul of gold was a drop in the bucket; he had reaped one of the polyglot Portuguese colony's biggest fortunes from his teeming salons, where gamblers from nearby Hong Kong and South China came for fan-tan and cusek (played with dice). During the war Foo got into the big time; he cornered Macao's food market. On the profits he kept six concubines in a Macao mansion...