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...that an American-born Irishman would have felt towards the IRA in 1922. He would like to return to Palestine, but not to live, although he is very hopeful for the land. "They ought to be able to hold their present boundaries," he says. He has worked with a tent-housed agricultural group in the desert, and knows that if the country can support the population of three million the Jews are planning. The biggest problem today is handling the huge group of immigrants recently absorbed into the country...
...Find. The planes made 20 flights the first day, 50 the next, 60 the next. At times they were stacked five deep over sandbars waiting for landings. Tents, fires, laboring men spread along eight miles of riverbank. A trapper's wife opened a coffee shop in a tent. A clothing store sprang up in another. Old prospectors, panning methodically after thawing the frozen ground with fires, found traces of gold dust. But they found nothing else...
Philadelphia's ancient and grimy Re publican political machine has controlled the city for more than seven decades by judiciously keeping it corrupt and con tent. But two years ago, when municipal employees demanded $5,000,000 in wage raises, Philadelphia's bosses made a fright ful mistake. They passed the buck to a committee of fifteen prominent citizens. Instead of sportingly recommending tax boosts, the committee proposed that the city simply save the money by operating more efficiently. It began investigating municipal affairs to find out how it could be done...
...band made up just about like the one that had first won him fame & fortune ten years ago (eight brasses, five saxophones and a rhythm section), playing old Shaw specials like Begin the Beguine, Frenesi and Dancing in the Dark, might lure his strayed followers back into the tent. Once they were in, perhaps he could give them Prokofiev, Ravel, Berezowsky et al. in small doses...
...exhibit-and sell-these glories, page after glossy page of models paraded past magazine readers. Historically, the model was the descendant of the come-on girl posted in front of a Midway show tent; socially, she ranked high above the chorus girl and not far below the movie star. In the bright parade, with the assurance of a duchess and the accomplished posturing of an actress, floated Lisa Fonssagrives. There was Lisa in a little black moire number (by Jacques Fath); there was Lisa invitingly recumbent in a black lace and taffeta ensemble (by Janet Taylor); there was Lisa wistfully...