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After many a summer, a foreign fighter reached the U.S. without bringing along a glass chin and a pair of collapsible knees. In smoke-hazy Madison Square Garden, hairy-chested Marcel Cerdan, middleweight champion of Europe, danced out from his corner last week and swung like a Normandy windmill. George Abrams, one of the top four U.S. middleweights, looked surprised and swung back. For the next ten rounds they fought it out. Then they waited vacant-eyed and with blood trickling down their faces while the ballots were collected. The winner, to no one's surprise but Abrams...
...what the tabloid Daily Mirror called "a pale beige wool dress, with a deeper-than-usual neckline and longer-than-usual skirt." How had she found things? Said she: "A great many things are gone, including a most wonderful wine cellar. Not a bottle remains." But she kept her chin up. "C'est la guerre," said Mrs. Williams...
Speaking on "What is the Solution in China?" Chen Chin-mai, Counsellor to the Chinese Embassy, and John K. Fairbank '29, associate professor of History, agreed that the U. S. attitude thue far has been without proper regard for the best interests of the Chinese people...
From their monastic quarters near the main temple, the priests dragged the abbot of Paiyunkuan, An Shih-lin, and his favorite priest, Pai Chin-yi. In the flickering light of oil lamps, a bitter trial began. The priestly jury found the abbot and his henchman guilty of illegal relations with women (kept in a house beyond the temple walls); of squandering temple funds (to buy heroin); and of starving two Chinese because they refused to collaborate with the Japs...
...busiest beavers in Britain were bobbing chin & chin last week...