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...honor the big house-raising, the Pineville Bakery had donated a giant cake that bore on its icing a verse from the Second Book of Kings: "Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed . . . and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither." The "little chamber" that the 700 built that day for Pastor Kelly and his school turned out to be 19 brand-new, four-room cottages. By nightfall, as the people drove away, lights were already burning in some...
Mothers & Sons. Travelers arriving at Hong Kong from Shanghai told of people being hauled off trains and killed on the spot. Many an old grudge was being settled as servants accused former masters, employees denounced past employers, kinfolk bore witness against each other. The terror scorned the traditional Confucian concept of decent human relationship. Older people, heretofore respected for their years, were led through streets to prisons or to execution, and on the way Communist youth spat at them. In one Kwangtung province town a grey-haired man was forced to crawl on his knees, kowtow to groups...
Jockey Pete McLean broke REPETOIRE forwardly, but elected to move up gradually while racing out of harm's way on the outside. Turning into the stretch, he made his run at the front horse, INTENT, a 9-to-1 shot. REPETOIRE was forced wide as the leader bore out, recovered and had enough left to beat late-rushing BATTLE MORN (10-to-1) by a head in a modest 1:44⅔ Third was INTENT, running only the third race of his career and possibly a comer...
...Sunday morning, Japanese newspapers carried his first public statement to the Japanese, stressing the continuance of MacArthur's occupation policy in phrases that were Ridgway's, yet still bore a strong resemblance to MacArthur's old-fashioned prose...
Ward, who allowed several long blows that were caught by outfielders, bore down in the ninth after Shultz's single to make Kowalski and Henley hit into forceouts at second and struck out right fielder John Poce to end the game. HARVARD ab r h po a e Foynes, cf 3 0 0 3 0 0 Robinson, rf 4 1 2 1 0 0 White, ss 5 0 1 2 5 0 Akillian, lf 3 0 0 1 0 0 Walsh, c 2 1 1 6 1 0 Johnson, 1b 2 2 1 9 1 0 Reilly...