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...Other guests included Ambassador Hurley, tactful Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, commander of U.S. forces in China, and round-faced General Chou Enlai, China's No. 2 Communist. Chiang and Mao toasted each other in yellow wine. The Communist leader quaffed his cup; the Generalissimo (a teetotaler) barely wet his lips. Said Chiang: "I hope we can have the cordial atmosphere...
Thoughts of Home. China's little people, who had borne the bitter burden of resistance, heard the surrender news with heart-singing happiness. Yet it was hard to believe after so many dark years. A ricksha coolie spelled out the tidings before one of Chungking's wet wall newspapers, then mumbled, "Japan is defeated. Can we go home now?" In the streets, markets, tea houses, Government corridors the refrain echoed and re-echoed: "Japan is defeated. Can we go home...
...wet and grey, but millions of Londoners lined the route of the royal procession from Buckingham Palace to Westminster. WRENs in uniform perched on the Admiralty roof; pajama-clad residents of Carlton House Terrace clung to chimneys. The cheers swelled in ear-splitting waves. By historic chance, V-J day came on the day the new Labor-dominated Parliament opened. In one burst Britons were hailing victory, the Crown and Socialism...
...Scout can spoil his scoutmaster's day is to break out with a rash of poison ivy. Last week Scoutmaster F. W. James of Belleville, NJ. told the New York Times how he had met this crisis some 200 times in 26 years. He applies a wet dressing of aluminum acetate solution (a common, harmless astringent) for about ten minutes, daubs on more when itching returns. He said that most new cases clear overnight, most old ones in a few days...
...weather has been a wet blanket to big-time outdoor symphonies this summer. In Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell, 50% of the scheduled performances have been called on account of rain. In Manhattan, about one out of four of the famed Lewisohn Stadium concerts have been canceled, and another 16 of the scheduled 53 were umbrella nights, when the orchestra blew and fiddled but the cash register only tinkled. Last week the biggest deficit ($80.000) in Lewisohn's 28 years faced its promoter, grey-haired, peppy Mrs. Charles S. (Minnie) Guggenheimer, 63, the matriarch of New York...