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...that of Sir Stamford Raffles, founder of the city. Besides the great ramshackle Raffles Hotel, Singapore boasts a Raffles Place, a Raffles Institution, a Raffles Library, a Raffles Museum, a Raffles statue-but not a Raffles soul. There were not many men in this Singapore who would bother, as Raffles did, to learn the Malayan language at 25, to undertake...
...seen so much death and suffering," says he, "I have to find diversion in painting." When he ceases to get any fun out of a picture, he throws it aside and does another one. Because he finds meticulous draughtsmanship a bore, he doesn't even bother to finish the faces in his figures, leaves them eyelessly blank. But the people in Surgeon Souchon's paintings need faces no more than a poem needs footnotes. Effusive and bubbling as Oldster Souchon himself, they make their point not by depicting anything in particular, but by the sheer joyousness of their...
...nothing amazing about what I've done. There are thousands of guys in the country who could do the same thing. Let more little fellows like myself have the subcontracts and you will really see the defense program roll. Even the machinery problem won't bother them. Those fellows can make their...
...certainly easier to give a stock reply than to bother finding out the 'average weight of a hippopotamus,' for which one person asked yesterday...
...going to the bottom each time they give blood, and moving up a name each time somebody else docs. They get $25 for each transfusion, generally losing about 500 cc at a time. "Some of the most delicate-looking boys go over to the hospital and it doesn't bother them a bit," says white-haired, little Miss Baldwin. Sometimes if a vein is a trifle stubborn the doctors have to "fuss around a bit more," but generally it's well worth the money and the donor's blood should be replaced in 24 hours. Some men, through various shennanigans...