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...Kansans, their bone-dry liquor law has long been a laugh. Good whiskey is easier to get in Topeka than in wet Kansas City, Mo., 67 miles away. It just costs a little more. Everyone knows that there are at least 45 reliable bootleggers among Topeka's 76,000 population; that every bellhop has a ready pint or quart; that mixed drinks are served at the Rainbo, the Northern Star, the It'll Do Club; that to get a fifth of Old Granddad (unavailable in Kansas City) at Meadow Acres Ballroom, all you have to do is beckon...
...networks' fall schedules were almost filled in. Yet nobody had met the ante for such top-dollar talent as Nelson Eddy, Hildegarde, Rudy Vallee, and the wisemen on Information Please. Instead, low-priced shows had been snapped up. The reason: radio advertisers had pared their budgets to the bone (TIME...
This "peaceful" position won the Communists considerable support among a people heartily sick of war. On the other hand, the Communists had lost some strength in liberal and intellectual groups which formerly made a sharp distinction between Chinese Reds and Russian Reds. In bone-poor Yenan the Communist record had been one of progressive reform. But from Shantung and other recently occupied areas, Chinese liberals heard and many believed verifiable tales that were remarkably like the stories of Red oppression in eastern Europe. But this loss of prestige among intellectuals was much less important to the Communists than retention...
Since the days of the Spanish occupation the flat rice paddies of Central Luzon have been the Philippines' main bread basket and bitterest bone of contention. Generations of Filipino landlords and tenant farmers have battled over how the crops should be divided. Always the result has been the same. From each carnage of broken heads emerged fewer and richer landlords, more and poorer croppers...
Murphy says he has spoken to about 100 players in the past few days and that most of them believe that the meeting is just an attempt to throw them the bone, and that the move to give the players a voice came not out of benevolence but out of the realization that such a result was inevitable...