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...disarming as he announces that this is "a superficial account of an unsensational journey". His Anglo-Saxon honesty compels him to add "I dare say I could have made my half-baked conclusions on the major issue of the Far East sound convincing. But it is one thing to bore your readers and another to mislead them". Such frankness is, indeed, unusual; for it is apparent that there has become a surfeit of "authoritative" pronouncements on the Far Eastern situation by each visiting professor and casual tourist. By the length of his travels in Russia, Manchukuo and China, one feels...
Some months ago in Paris gendarmes made the rounds of the newsstands, snatched up all visible copies of a scandal sheet called Ecoutez-Moi ("Listen To Me"), bore them off to headquarters, fed them to the furnace. The gendarmes were obeying orders from the Foreign Office, which had been stirred to action by the British Embassy, which had been outraged by an article entitled "The Prince of Wales is Bedworthy...
Labor pains roved through her. She cried for help. No one came. She tried to hold the baby back at least until daylight. But there could be no waiting. Mrs. Toner got out of bed and like solitary females of primitive times, bore her baby, an 8-lb. girl, without any assistance...
Fully as astounding as Mrs. Toner's fortitude was the precocity of Mildred Morgan, 11, of Kodak in the foothills of Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains. Last week the child, who weighs 82 lb., bore a healthy 7½-lb. baby whose father was a 14-year-old-boy. Only two dozen similar cases of young motherhood are known to have occured in this country...
...York City one morning two years ago Mrs. Ida Weiner, a public school teacher, went to her classroom, taught her moppets as usual. When she had finished, she proceeded to a hospital, bore a child. For this performance the City's Board of Education, whose bylaws require a teacher to begin a two-year, payless furlough as soon as she is aware of pregnancy, last week fined Teacher Weiner $300. Teacher Weiner's reported defense: not until the baby arrived did she know that she was pregnant...