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...four-volume, definitive R. E. Lee (TIME, Feb. 11, 1935) appeared, blew his house down before the roof was on. Last week the same meteorological hard luck seemed to be pursuing Caroline Gordon (Mrs. Allen Tate). For her Civil War novel came out in the wake of that typhoon of bestsellers, Gone With the Wind. Whether None Shall Look Back could weather the vacuum left by a super-seller covering the same ground, or whether the vacuum would lend it momentum, not even a publisher could predict. Sympathetic critics, just emerging from their cyclone cellars, wished Author Gordon luck...
Crowds & Rain, During the planning of the 33rd International Eucharistic Congress, its officials were at pains to announce that, according to the Manila Weather Bureau, there had never been a typhoon during February, and during its first ten days there had been rain in only 47 out of 69 years. On the Luneta, on which there had been erected a tall, glass- enclosed, air-conditioned altar, two downpours of rain scattered the faithful who came to worship in crowds of from 50,000 to 200,000 at a time. Also, to the scandal of strait-laced Filipinos, the Congress coincided...
...Curley, when asked what he planned to do after giving up his office tomorrow said that he was going to tend to his own business. This declaration is enough to evoke a respiration by the people of the state that will create a typhoon in the Indian Ocean and at least a zephyr in the Himalayas. Too long have they had the impression that he was at one and the same time mismanaging other people's business and attending to his own, in the usual sense of the word...
...Hongkong, Commonwealth-President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines began to receive a steady stream of wireless reports. Before the day was out he had proclaimed a "state of calamity," had issued a decree appropriating $500,000 from the Commonwealth's scanty treasury for emergency relief. A South Pacific typhoon had just caused one of the worst catastrophes in Philippine history...
Connoisseurs of typhoons, the Filipinos thought little of it when one of these lethal storms whipped straight across the lower portion of Luzon fortnight ago. Only ten or 15 people were killed and a few hundred houses razed. But like a man who rejoices at escaping the jaws of a crocodile only to be crushed by its flailing tail, Filipinos began to think differently when the backlash of the typhoon curled back and caught northern Luzon. The fury of the storm had abated but the heavens over the three northwestern provinces of the island suddenly liquefied. Through those provinces-Nueva...