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...Whither had the captains departed? Where were the generals and admirals whom war had made famous...
...Other readers so moved should send their contributions direct to their local Red Cross (whither TIME has forwarded Reader Faller's check...
...Whither Younger Sons? How much heed the young men of Quebec would give to the plea was questionable. Once predominantly rural, Quebec is now (next to Ontario) the most urban province.* Almost 95% of its 155,000 farmers own their farms. But they cannot afford to buy new land in established areas for their many sons because 1) land prices have risen and 2) mechanization requires larger and thus more costly farms. Hence some 180,000 unmarried sons between 15 and 30 are currently wondering where to farm or whether to farm at all. Many will wind up in city...
...Revolving Door. Haiti, whither the disease was brought by slaves from Africa in 1509, now has the world's highest incidence of yaws. Since 1943 the U.S. Sanitary Mission, backed by $150,000 from the State Department's Institute of Inter-American Affairs and an equal amount from the Haitian Government, has worked hard on a project to eradicate the disease in selected districts of southern Haiti...
Gauguin without Maugham. A Manhattan gallery last week put on the best Gauguin show yet seen in the U.S. (including 40 paintings and 44 prints and drawings). Not included: the Boston Museum's 14-by-5-ft. masterpiece entitled Whence Do We Come? What Are We? Whither Are We Going?, which Gauguin painted on burlap sacks after trying to poison himself...