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...Convent's buildings, the former residence of Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan, had contained a pool table which "the dear Sisters had seen no reason for removing." Says Author Chase: "It was a pretty sight to see Mother Mary Agnes, who shot a mean ball, leaning backward over the table, her veil slightly askew, while with her cue tucked under her arm she aimed swift and true for the corner pocket...
...arrival Jacoby got a cable transferring him to Manila. He proposed from rickshaw to rickshaw as they jogged over bomb-pitted streets to attend a missionary's reception. To her rickshaw drawn by a straining coolie he shouted: "Say, will you marry me?" Pretty dark-eyed Annalee, craning backward, shouted: "What did you say?" Repeated Jacoby: "I said, will you marry me?" No answer. At the reception, between introductions, he pressed for an answer. He got it after Annalee said "How do you do" to the fifth missionary. "Yes," she said...
First into the native section of Toungoo, with its wooden houses, then into the neat streets where the stone houses and churches of the British stood, the Japs pressed the Chinese ever backward. There were some 20,000 Japanese; the weary young Chinese commander had only 8,000 men. The Japanese had plenty of tanks and artillery; the Chinese had no tanks, almost no artillery from Chiang Kai-shek's meager stocks in China. They had to fight with rifles, pistols, light machine guns. Sometimes the Chinese called out to the Japs: "Lao hsiang (old countryman...
Generally, the group of experts arrived at the conclusion that most treasures are fairly safe at the present time, and under the protection that is now in use. But, taking a backward glance at the loss of valuable property during the battle of France, and the air battles over England, the conference warned against a relaxing of vigilance and protective effort...
Neutral Sweden has supplied Germany with iron ore, wood pulp and merchant ships. The Government has leaned over backward to maintain friendly relations with Germany: last week it suppressed ten newspapers which had printed documented accounts of German concentration-camp brutalities in Norway. An Army of 30 highly trained divisions, under General Ivar Holmquist, is tough and ready after winter exercises. The trim little Swedish Navy under Vice Admiral Fabian Tamm was on the alert. But the suspense was painful...