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...life in the pink stucco house where he was born. As a youth he studied painting in Paris, but he was unsuccessful with the brush. Not until he was 40 did he have any working knowledge of sculpture. Then one day he picked up a fallen tree trunk, from it carved a woman's figure. For the next 42 years he devoted himself almost entirely to carving and modeling female forms. "I am inconsolable," he once said, "not to have seen the figures of all the women of my native province...
Laopaihsing-"old hundred names"-the Chinese call the little people of China. The laopaihsing are the backbone of China's long endurance. Last week in Kweilin, at the end of the trunk railway from Hengyang, New York Timesman Brooks Atkinson sampled laopaihsing opinion, asked the little people what they would do if the Japs came...
...grenade struck the head of the driver, went on to hit the officer beside him between the eyes, killing both men. The cycle skidded into a ditch, catapulting the third German headfirst to his death against a stone wall. The doughboy retrieved his grenade from a tree trunk and rammed it back on the rifle launcher; it was still good...
When she was six, her beautiful, austere, mysterious mother bought her no dresses in one purchase. Biquette spent four miserable years wearing them out. At Christmas her playroom was so filled with toys there was no place to play. She got a trunk full of doll clothes, a hatbox full of bonnets, enough candy to give her indigestion for six months...
...upper jaw of the Soviet crunch reached far behind Minsk and cut the railroad to Vilna; the lower jaw snapped the trunk line to Warsaw near Baranowicze. Minsk fell, trapping an estimated 150,000 more Germans. Swarms of Red bombers blasted the roads to Vilna and Koenigsberg, to Bialystok and Brest-Litovsk...