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...says, of his sheet, "Reactionary, isn't it?" He is shocked when he finds she knows no fairy tales, has no childish belief in magic. On a tour of Manhattan he shows her magic in a sandwich man whose shirt front lights up, in an enormous neon dragon above Times Square, in the whistling convolutions of a popcorn machine...
...these personal reasons-and, above all, for their incalculable service to China -Chennault and his Tigers are so many sky dragons to the Chinese. In Chinese lore, the dragon is an admirable beast...
French Putsch. In the Lebanese capital, Beirut, which lies between the bay where St. George slew his dragon and the hills where Solomon got his tall cedars, French officers and helmeted Senegalese soldiers summarily arrested Lebanon's President Bechara El Khoury, Premier Riad Solh and his cabinet ministers. By the day's end, Parliament had been dissolved, a puppet regime led by Francophile ex-President Emile Eddé had been installed, newspapers banned, martial law and curfew imposed, troops posted in squares. Having ordered these measures, French Delegate General Jean Helleu leaned back, ready for the worst...
...York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey returned last week to the role in which the public knows him best. He was out to slay another dragon: this time the iron-scaled political monster which has dominated Albany for 20 years...
...Career (See Cover) When Thomas Edmund Dewey sets out to slay a dragon, as he did in Albany last week (see above), he is no impetuous, old-fashioned St. George. He goes armed with concentrations of modern heavy artillery, preceded by elaborate reconnaissance and followed by a staff of logistics experts. As man, District Attorney or Governor, Tom Dewey is calm, neat, painstaking and deadly efficient...