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American blended rye whisky has a bouquet that matches the best cognac France can produce. The dogs of Yakima, Wash. are friendlier than dogs in most U.S. communities. The Burma-Shave company needs a greater variety of jingles for its roadside signs. The best apple pie in the U.S. is served at the Cottage Inn in Cripple Creek, Colo. The whistles of railroad trains speeding across the American prairies are in the key of C, and are the first, third and fifth notes of a chord. These and other minutiae are among the many observations and conclusions...
...Carmichael's ditty was ringing round the world, useful, so they both believed, to friend and foe. In the Philippines a native combo dewed the eyes of the crew of an LST with a proud performance of Stardust. In Burma U.S. troops heard Tokyo Rose play it at midnight. In Tokyo a Japanese journalist named Tateishi and two pals huddled in a closet during a B-29 raid, listening to Stardust on a portable phonograph...
Died. Leopold Stennett Amery, 81, Tory elder statesman, onetime First Lord of the Admiralty (1922-24), Colonial Secretary (1924-29), wartime Secretary of State for India and Burma under the Commonwealth (1940-45), author (Empire and Prosperity); in his sleep at his home; in London. India-born Amery delivered the oratorical coup de grâce to Chamberlain in 1940 when he quoted in the House of Commons from Oliver Cromwell: "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing ... In the name of God, go!" A lifelong imperialist, he lived to see his son John...
...pressure takes several forms. In Japan, as in Korea, it is taxes. A new Japanese tax boost on foreigners (TIME, Aug. 22) will mean that in order to give an American employee $10,000 in take-home pay, a company must peg his salary at $30,000. In Burma laws require that every company have at least 51% Burmese capital and employ at least 75% Burmese nationals. In India and Indonesia, even in the friendly Philippines and cosmopolitan Hong Kong, political and popular pressures are making U.S. firms hire fewer and fewer Americans, more and more Asians...
Recently, General Yu received a secret visit from old friend and new Communist, General Wei, who came back under an assumed name to stir up other defections. Soon afterward, General Yu received a visit from another old friend, General Li Mi, onetime commander of Nationalist troops in Burma, who now occasionally visits Hong Kong incognito from Formosa. Both left his house without any commitment from General Yu and presumably without any certainty that Yu had not committed himself to the other...