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...Much Success. Since the Generalissimo appointed him governor last December, Wu has ably wielded the broom of reform. He has managed to halt inflation by curbs on the amount of money in circulation. Wu has also managed to repeat his feat of Hankow: he has balanced Formosa's budget-not without drastic forced loans and capital levies...
...miles of plains and mountain wilderness between Kan-chaung, Burma and Silchar, India will remind readers, as it does Elephant Bill himself, of Hannibal's crossing of the Alps. But Williams keeps his voice at a modest pitch even when reciting this journey's most spectacular feat, i.e., leading his charges across a 3-ft.-wide ledge hundreds of feet high. Says he: "I learned more about what elephants could be got to do in that one day than I had in 24 years...
Trollope's dovetailing of all this material into a single major plot of slowly mounting drama is an awesome feat. More typically Trollopian are his incidental, illuminating comments on the normal and everyday: on a country squire ("He endeavored to enable his tenants and laborers to live"); of British hotel coffee ("An unlimited supply of lukewarm water poured over an infinitesimal proportion of chicory"). Trollope's unaccustomed passion for plot is no substitute for more such salty asides, dry touches of humor, and lore of human kind...
Weekend activity in the league clarified the race to the point where it is now certain that Stuffy McInnis' nine must win all of its remaining league games to stay in contention for the title. Providing that this is successfully accomplished, a feat which would require the Crimson to have won nine out of its final 11 games, the team will find itself in at least a two-way tie for the title with Army, and more probably a three way tie with the Cadets and Princeton...
Last week, as he celebrated his 50th anniversary as editor of the world's oldest picture magazine, plump, jolly Chef Ingram was performing the neat feat of turning out a tasty and tasteful journalistic meal without spice. "Whatever success we've had," says 73-year-old Captain (World War I) Ingram, "has been due to a policy of romance without sensation...