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Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey's Circus, which had been stuck in New York during the coal strike, got stuck again-this time in Boston, while a baby giraffe was born in a tent. In Lancaster, Pa., city firemen were routed out at 4:30 a.m., had to couple up long hoses to water a trainload of 2,000 thirsty hogs. There was chicken trouble, too-hundreds of automatic incubators were hatching thousands of eggs every hour. Unable to ship the new arrivals, owners gloomily planned mass drownings...
Power of a Woman. On Okinawa, three struggling G.I.s huffed & puffed at the task of carrying a folded tent to a loading area, five minutes later saw it move down the road atop the head of a tiny Okinawan woman...
...resulting story set Mrs. Stertz -and Chicago - on its ear. Hurriedly, Land lady Stertz dragged Betty's bed out of the tent, punched a Her aid-American photographer in the nose, set her brother to giving other newsmen the bum's rush. Fire Department and Health Department officials arrived. So, belatedly, did the embarrassed OPA. Cried Mrs. Stertz: "My base ment is the showplace of Chicago." Betty became a newspaper heroine. The Allied Florists Association sent her flowers, and 25 people offered her better places to stay. But Betty, who had her bed back, decided to stick...
...crucial meeting in March 1940 Jinnah first publicly plumped for Pakistan.* A hundred thousand followers thronged into the shade of a huge pandal (big tent) in Lahore, where the League was meeting, overflowed into the scorching heat outside, heard Jinnah proclaim over the loudspeaker: ". . . The only course open to us all is to allow the major nations [of India] to separate to their homelands." He warned that any democratic government in a unified India which gave Moslems a permanent minority "must lead to civil war and the raising of private armies." An enthusiastic woman follower tore off her veil, came...
...Amman. There for two hours he works. Then he returns to his gaudy palace on one of Amman's five hilltops and reads Arabic poetry. After a hearty lunch (favorite dish: chicken pilaf) he attends to more official business. More often he withdraws to a black Bedouin tent in the backyard of his palace, to receive his chieftains. When he is gay (which happens often), he will take a sheikh into the palace and send him careering through the salons on a bicycle. He loves practical jokes, and keeps a set of distorting mirrors in his palace "so that...