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...trouble in Indo-China (TIME, Sept. 24) worsened last week. The fever of nationalism that broke out in Saigon spread to islands of The Netherlands East Indies, as the Allied colonial powers scrambled to pick up the pieces of their Southeast Asia empires. It was clear that the empires' inhabitants had heard a bout such things as the four freedoms and the coming Philippine independence...
...which speaks for most of India, was meeting at the foot of Bombay's Malabar Hill. Hundreds of workers had toiled day & night for a fortnight to erect a pandal (tent) big enough to seat the 300 delegates and 25,000 visitors. Gandhi was absent with a high fever, but his deputy, Jawaharlal Nehru, was conspicuously present. Embittered Moslem League supporters signalized Nehru's arrival by waving black flags, which Congress supporters promptly tore to tatters...
...spring-fever time in the enchanted forest-scene of James Thurber's latest excursion into the world of fantasy. The rabbits tipped their heads, as men tip their hats, "removing them with their paws and putting them back again." A pink comet flashed by, missing the world by inches. The air was full of the tinkling of musical mud, the roar of barking trees, the flight of wingless birds. In fact, everything was just as usual...
Andrew Jackson Higgins, colorful New Orleans boat builder (PTs and landing craft) who toils and talks at fever heat, returned from a Pacific tour to announce a two-man crusade (with Admiral Nimitz) to get American men into cooler and fewer clothes. "First thing I did after leaving Honolulu," he said, "was to take off my tie, open the top two buttons of my shirt, and chop my pants off above the knee...
...stationmaster's dwelling at Astapovo, where the great novelist died 35 years ago. After a last bitter quarrel with his wife, Tolstoy had stormed from his Yasnaya Polyana home, entrained for Moscow to begin life anew at 82; on the train he was seized with chills and fever, got off at Astapovo, succumbed to pneumonia a week later...