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...Yams & Couplings. There were even indications and promises of a good future. In such a commonplace as a yam, science was finding new hope for the ill (see MEDICINE). There were also new comforts to living. There was a 24-lb. sewing machine on the market which not only could stitch but could embroider, make buttonholes and darn socks. There was an announcement that the New York Central would soon have ready for wilting and near-sighted New York commuters 100 air-conditioned cars with fluorescent lighting and improved couplings to soften the shock of frequent stopping & starting. The rubber...
Hannah Szenesh came to Palestine from Hungary as a child. She became a member of a collective Sdot Yam, located near the ruins of ancient Ceasarea. When war broke out, Hannah Szenesh volunteered for special service in Hungary and enrolled as a parachutist. She was trained by the British. Hannah was to make contact with Jewish members of the Hungarian resistance movement and relay certain Allied Command instructions to them. She was caught, tortured, and finally shot by a firing squad. Hannah Szenesh was a member of Haganah...
...foot, 200-pound Foo Tak-yam last week visited Macao's Buddhist Kuan Yin Temple. His partly pious, partly sensual intention was to smoke opium and contemplate a successful, sinful life that began in peddling doughnuts and culminated in ruling the fabulous gambling industry of the Orient's Monte Carlo. Foo's celebration was under way when three Chinese entered the hilltop pagoda, pulled pistols from their long black gowns and whisked him away in a black sedan. Four days later his son received a preliminary ransom demand: one picul of gold (133⅓ lbs. in weight...
...yam patches and palm-roofed villages of free New Guinea the word came: him good fella white fella man had called for a big sing-sing to celebrate the passing of him bad fella Japan...
Jimmy Durante, now 50 and some 15 years away from his nightclubbing prime, left Hollywood with his nose-that-walks-like-a-yam and made his second smashing nightclub comeback in nine months-like the first, at Manhattan's Copacabana...