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...Unhappiest man in Rome the day the list came out was Signor Gammarelli, the thin, clear-eyed tailor who has the arduous task of supplying cardinals with all the paraphernalia of a prince of the church. Even in the best of times a cardinal's wardrobe costs about $4,000, from his moire silk skullcap to his red silk socks and red morocco, silver-buckled shoes. Since one complete costume (a cardinal usually has a half-dozen or more) takes up to 30 yards of material, and Italy's weavers are still short of supplies, Gammarelli feared there...
...dear, quiet please. Today is the most happy day of our life, just as Stalingrad was the unhappiest when we thought there was nothing to do for our country but die. But now, my dear, we have the most crazy of our life. You must pardon I don't speak the right English, but we are very happy so we drink a toast. Long live Roosevelt!" A comrade whispered Harry Truman's name; the speaker looked at him blankly and went on: "Long live Roosevelt! Long live Stalin! Long live our two great armies...
Wiping up the Channel coast might be a dirty job. But Dieppe was paid for in full. So were the unhappiest years that any fighting men could have-years in which Canadian soldiers had chafed almost in vain for action. Almost in vain but not quite, for they had seen action, each time under circumstances which, through no fault of their own, were painful or disastrous...
University students and their professors are the unhappiest people in Japan. This is the report, cabled by TIME'S Chungking Correspondent Theodore White last week, of a Chinese teacher who visited Japan last year on a puppet-government mission, has since repented his apostasy...
...Unhappiest city of all is Seattle, which embarked upon a fancy modernization program two years ago. Some of its trolley tracks were ripped up and sold to Japan for scrap, others were buried in new asphalt. Mayor E. D. Millikin is now frantically looking for funds to unbury what tracks he has left...