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...Communists, leaders of the "old gang," Fascists of all stripes struggling to get control of the State. Ex-President Albert Lebrun had departed for Switzerland. The Hotel du Pare, headquarters of the Government, was packed with visitors, politicians, newsmen. Marshal Petain held court in a corner of the lounge, ate behind a screen in the hotel dining room. Dark little Vice Premier Pierre Laval dashed off communiqués, handed them out personally in the lobby. Early each morning an airplane took off from Vichy, headed northeast toward Wiesbaden, Germany, where the Armistice Commission...
...felt by the Communist authorities, the imprisoned Radziwills had become thin and emaciated. Suddenly their Moscow prison rations were changed from short to long. The same official of the Soviet Political Police who had starved and questioned them then stood over the Radziwills to make sure they ate every morsel on their now heaping plates. They were kept from the usual prison exercise period, suffered gastritis from the intensive stuffing process. But the Radziwills were fattened up to something like normal in three weeks...
...river-hogs swayed on their cloven, pointed hooves as they tried to maintain their balance. No pride in their eyes now. . . . The buffalo was.swaying in his crate, with a wandering look in his eye and ears laid back, like a mute trying to make a speech. . . . The hyena dribbled, ate, vomited, and ate again; no sickness, still less any discomfort could diminish his voracity. The panther lay huddled in a corner of her cage, with staring fur and a look of mystery in her eyes. . . . Can the sufferings of animals reveal what is going on in their dim souls...
Last week, in Columbus, Ohio State faculty members gave a banquet for old Dr. Korell, presented his portrait to the medical school. The old country doctor smiled, ate the dinner, stammered a few words of thanks, wiped away a tear, went home to putter around his garden...
...group the nine painters went swimming, played tennis, ate, drank, toured Walt Disney's studios. Every 15 minutes or so they took time out to listen to war news. As a wind-up celebration Producer Wanger (proud of his first venture into the arts) gave them a reception attended by 400 of Hollywood's Who's Who. Afterwards cinema stars were heard to declare that they were going to visit some art galleries, now that they knew how painting was done. How they had got their own paintings done was not so clear to the painters...