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One decisive battle is enough to settle most campaigns. But last week, with the monsoon due to write finis in May, the Burma campaign of 1943-44 was winding up with two decisive battles under way at once.
During the interlude between the two world wars, Count Coudenhove-Kalergi spent his time traveling about Europe organizing Pan-European units. For a time things looked propitious. But the depression and the sudden rise of Hitlerian National Socialism in Germany wrote finis to the Count's hopes. Throughout the...
In deep red ink, the U.S. Government wrote finis to another fiscal year. The Treasury Department announced that: 1) $78 billion had been spent, ten times the average annual outlay of the New Deal's palmiest spending days; 2) though revenues were $22 billion, up four times the prewar...
No More. In Orono, Me., the Walton House closed its doors after a century of service; the owner's name was Mealus, the last guest's was Finis.
Burial arrangements were in charge of one of the most unfunereal of U.S. authors - Lyle Saxon, whose literary merit (Old Louisiana, Fabulous New Orleans, Children of Strangers) has long been overshadowed by his reputation as a wit and New Orleans host. Assisting WPA's George Field in preparing the...