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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each of the onlookers in the grandstand got yellow "peace buttons" to wear in their lapels. Each signed individual cards promising to "repent and pray" for the "Chinese, Filipinos and South Sea Islanders whose houses our troops had pillaged and burned, whose properties they looted, whose families they insulted and killed." This humility was echoed over a loud speaker at a baseball game between a badly outclassed team from MacArthur's headquarters and a team from the Japanese Ministry of Trade. "Please," the announcer urged the audience in Japanese, "applaud more loudly for the Americans...
Tennessee's Boss Crump, whose domain shrank last election from the whole state to just the city of Memphis (and surrounding Shelby County), decided that there would be no harm now in admitting his age: 75. Never bothered to set folks right before, he told reporters, "because you've misrepresented me for 20 years, and had me younger, not older." Not that age makes any difference, he added: "You should never quit playing because you are old-you grow old because you quit playing. I enjoy life. I love life. I love people." Gloria Swanson, high-styled siren...
Leggy Cinemactress Ava Gardner (The Great Sinner), whose first husband was Mickey Rooney and second was Artie Shaw, now felt up to the esthetic side of marriage. "I've grown up," said she. "I used to think books were only good for doorstops. Then I read one and found it habit forming. Now I read all the time. Same with music. I still like pop tunes but I'm getting to be a longhair too. A few years ago I thought anybody who liked to listen to symphonies wore long underwear...
Britain is not even building high-altitude rockets, let alone space ships. But this practical detail does not bother the thriving organization of imaginative zealots called the British Interplanetary Society, whose purpose is "development of interplanetary exploration and communication." Last week the B.I.S. had a record 580 members, including such philosophical well-wishers as George Bernard Shaw. The most active members are scientists from Britain's great research laboratories. Said one of these undauntedly: "So far, the whole [high altitude rocket] program is American. We cannot afford to sponsor direct development. But even if we have nothing but pencil...
...Picasso, but its loony, mountainous melee of animals and things was Dominguez' own, a jumble of the sort one sees at the moment of going to sleep or awakening, transformed and made monumental by the order and clarity of the painter's arrangement. A huge, expansive man whose rolling eyes and fierce mustache make him look like the villain in a melodrama, Dominguez may well become a new hero in French...