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...every Turkish city and major town the dawn came up one day last week with the earth-shaking thunder of a 100-gun artillery salute. Three days and nights of sleepless rejoicing, songs, dancing in the streets and every sort of Turkish whoopee began by express order of the Ghazi Mustafa Kemal, blond "Victorious Mustafa the Excellent...
...lunatic fringe. For her there is no working hour camaraderic in the lusty tradition of Murger; none of the careless, raptural inspiration of his Rodolfo. When the doors of 27 Rue de Fleurus are locked and the last villager has gone; in those sweet hours between midnight and dawn, when even Alice B. Toklas is abed, work, stern and serious, is the portion of Gertrude Stein...
...into crime via bootlegging and who boasts that he can write his name on a wall with machine gun bullets-had been eluding Federal authorities for more than three months. Thanks to an intercepted telegram and the story of a 12-year-old girl, they caught him one dawn last week in a Memphis bungalow...
...fortress after the sergeant's coup of "Emperor" Batista (TIME. Sept. 11). Tipped off to expect trouble, the National's U. S. Manager, W. P. Taylor, and his three assistants went out to a late dinner about 10 p. m. and did not return. Shooting started next dawn. Before sundown the entire vicinity was to be a bloody bedlam...
...listened, continue writing books. Like the Mahatma Gandhi, Kagawa keeps a day of silence every week. He too has foreign followers. His Madeline Slade is a Miss Helen Topping, who notes down everything he says. Rare is the Kagawa day that does not begin with prayers long before dawn, continue 18 or 20 hours. He speaks nearly every night, fills auditoriums with paying listeners. Never in good health, he contracted tuberculosis several years ago. Forced to rest, he nevertheless dictated three books. His partial blindness comes from trachoma contracted in the slums. One eye is gone. To read he must...