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Paratrooper General. Youngish (44) General Tu, who sometimes wears a brown stocking cap at headquarters to keep his straight, black hair trained back, had his detractors. Manchurian deputies shouted in Nanking that the Communists were making headway because Tu's officers were busy dealing in opium and loafing in dance halls. But General Tu had shown great ability in beating the Communists to control of southern Manchuria 18 months ago. Now he hoped to keep it from them...
With no fuss, the Russian stepped up to a youngish man with a briefcase under his arm and a dirty brown felt hat pulled over his ears, and commanded: "Eeh, Du! Komm!" The German froze, casting a terrified glance over his shoulder at the frightened stream of men & women who were trying not to see or hear. The Russian waved his Tommy gun and curled his lip. "Komm!" He pushed his petrified recruit roughly into the gutter...
Publick Occurrences was also "now full weary of the strange Fulminations of both Henry Wallace and Harold ('The Terrible') Ickes and their Ranting about . . . 'MILITARY FASCISM.' . . ." It snickered over a typo in "our youngish but esteemed Contemporary, the New York Times." It needled The Lone Ranger for brazenly stating from coast to coast "that nowhere in the pages of History can you find a greater champion of justice...
...large, youngish (37) man who looks something like a more alert Primo Carnera, he likes to wrestle playfully with friends and pull out their neckties. He became a rabid planner. Last winter, with the general exodus of planners from the Truman Administration, Nathan also left and organized the Robert R. Nathan Associates...
Ever since a team of Russian military advisers and technicians dropped in last January, Albania's youngish (38) dictator, Enver Hoxha (rhymes with got cha) has been as truculent as a small boy who thinks his big brother can lick anybody. Last week his behavior had reached a point where Washington and London could no longer afford to ignore...