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Bogota, the capital, has more bookshops than restaurants. The deputies "read their poems aloud to one another, and talk about the quantum theory." Gunther sat down to his first dinner hoping to hear about the Fifth Column and the Panama Canal, "but no one would talk about anything except Marcel Proust...
...France may well be the most exciting parts of his book. Van Paassen wandered in wartime Paris like a man in a city of tombs. He watched the mobile guards leave for the front: "Not a smile . . . not once a cheer." "C'est bien morne," said van Paassen aloud. "Non, monsieur" a Frenchman corrected him, "it is sinister...
...weeks: He "relishes the sitting position," smiles at the doctor. He accepts a ring or rattle, brings it to his mouth, although he is more interested in his visitor. When held upright he holds his head up and forward, laughs aloud, can sit propped for ten to 15 minutes...
...Stimson read White's letter aloud, then showed the press a similar card, sent to Lieut. Alfred T. Hearne at Fort McIntosh, Tex. Had Mr. Secretary any comment on these exhibits? Yes, he had jotted down something. From a typewritten flimsy he read: ". . . It is necessary to keep this force in existence . . . peril still exists. ... At this moment, a circular is sent out which will have the effect of impairing discipline. . . . Without expressing legal opinions, I will simply say that I think that comes very near the line of subversive activities against the United States-if not treason." With...
...sing it aloud...