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Lauritz Melchior, Metropolitan Opera tenor, got back from Denmark with a brand-new Commander of the Cross of Danneborg decoration and a story about King Christian's escape hatch (never used). When he was a palace prisoner of the Germans, the King had a secret tunnel built from the palace to the rear of the royal washerwomen's dormitory, at the edge of the grounds...
...small man with a ready smile, a forthright, friendly personality, and clothes as shabby as most Japanese. I had been told he was more likely than any to speak the truth about Japanese politics. This has been a police state, but his answers, in his own emphatic brand of English, were without hesitation or circumlocution...
...long stream of carpenters, electricians and movers had worked long hours to put the magnificent house, once the residence of the Duke of Sutherland, into tiptop shape. Carpets were laid, a bar installed, and a brand-new international round table built-a plywood ring, 14 feet in diameter, set on brown varnished legs. Separate chambers were provided for each of the foreign ministers. Mr. Molotov had the most elegant: a paneled room with towering mirrors and gilt scrollwork which was once the Duchess of Sutherland's boudoir...
...important chunk of that business was Mr. Soong's brand-new, still secret treaty with Soviet Russia (see FOREIGN NEWS). On its content and origins, Prime Minister Soong was mum. But Washington buzzed with accounts which threw the clearest light yet on the nature and purpose of official U.S. policy in Asia. The gist...
Into that brand-new city (called Dogpatch) flooded weird equipment: thousands of powerful, new-type pumps, gigantic electromagnets, innumerable other machines and instruments. Amid oceans of mud and battlefront confusion, they finally found their places. Both plants were successful, produced effective quantities of precious...