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During the German occupation these foresters had seen Nazi troops in the woods, had heard the sound of shots, had discovered fresh-turned earth. Carefully they had planted little pines to mark the places, with dates carved into the trunks. Now they pointed here, there. Picks thudded into the sodden...
Dr. Hume's account of his years in China, which won the $3,500 Norton Medical Award for 1946, is sketchy and unpretentious, but full of anecdote and East-West contrasts. Hunan 40 years ago had only recently admitted foreigners, and even substantial citizens still clung to their old...
Money gushed from unexpected springs. The bantam valley town of Jessup (pop. 6,000) sent the janitor of its four-room schoolhouse into Scranton with $19,000 dug out of attic trunks and sugar bowls. A team of 50 determined housewives left their breakfast dishes in the sink, stuck their...
He expanded into other enterprises. Example: he turned his summer home at Fortin into a hotel, enticed tourists with a gardenia-filled swimming pool, has made the resort almost a tourist must. Ruiz Galindo weekends in Fortin, does business in bathing trunks at the pool's edge. In Mexico...
One day last week he marshaled his lady, his three children (Rose Maureen, 13, Shane William, 10, Brian James, 6) a nanny (nurse), an aide-de-camp, a valet, a maid, a secretary, a lady in waiting, three dogs, 28 trunks and suitcases onto the four-stacker Aquitania in Southampton...