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Their medals tinkling discreetly on their chests, the five military judges walked into the court. Then the four defendants marched in. First among them was a tall old man, with pince-nez and a vinegar-sour face, who bowed stiffly to the presiding judge. He was Lieut. General Alexander Ernst Alfred Hermann von Falkenhausen, 72, military governor of Belgium in World War II, accused together with three other members of his occupation regime of causing the execution of 240 hostages, deporting Belgians for slave labor, deporting Jews to death camps...
...judgment of the Harvard Radio Network origin, I would award; a sharp rap of the knuckles to University Hall for its lack of encouragement and faith in the possibilities of a new idea a large decanter of radioactive vinegar to the Maintenance Department for its exorbitant bille, elasped hands over an empty chair to the CRIMSON for its skill at artificial insemination, and four buckets of high grade admiration to past and present members of the Network...
...newspapers continued to print columns of birthday salutations to Stalin. Under the heading "Flow of Greetings," Izvestia recently printed birthday best wishes from the workers of the Kilyazinsk fish cannery, of the Azerbaijan S.S.R., from the physical culture workers of Minsk and from the employees of Kharkov's vinegar factory...
...climate and fertile soil combine to produce vast quantities of rice, tea, sugar and fruit, including the round, yellow-fleshed watermelons which Formosans like to eat chilled in vinegar. In their paddy fields many Formosans grow two crops of rice each year, follow up with a third crop of turnips or cabbages...
Opera Singer Kirsten Flagstad had to take vinegar with her tea. Manhattan's Metropolitan, which had snubbed her as a suspected Nazi sympathizer during her first postwar visits to the U.S. in 1947-48, came up with an offer for next season (she turned it down because of previous concert bookings). Meanwhile, in San Francisco, trustees of the War Memorial Opera House canceled her four performances scheduled for this fall, "because of the controversial character of her public appearances elsewhere in the United States...