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Some 180,000 Hiroshimans still reckoned all time as before & after pika-don (flash-bang), but the city was slowly shuffling back to life and growth. Directly under the spot where the bomb had burst eleven months ago, a small vegetable garden flourished. The people were clearing paths through the desert of debris (it would take years to remove all) and building temporary camps of wood and rusty tin. In an effort to hide the naked desolation, the city administration issued free seedlings of wildflowers. The Reconstruction Deliberation Committee, with Rotarian zeal, dreamed of making a tourist center of Hiroshima...
...evening last month a popular, mild-mannered priest, Don Umberto Pessina, was walking along a lonely lane to his home in San Martino, suburb of Correggio (where the painter of that name was born). There was a bright orange flash among the yellow fireflies. Don Umberto fell, shot through the neck. He managed to crawl to his doorstep, where the assassin crushed in his skull...
...along came a lot of big war contracts-and a man named Ernest Murphy. He was tough and bejowled, just like Diamond Jim, but he was no party-thrower. The hard-working Mr. Murphy shook the dust and defeatism out of Pressed Steel, gave it a new kind of flash. Result: last week, after nearly half a century of making nothing but freight cars, Pressed Steel sparkled with plans to invade the home-appliance field. The first shiny electric ranges were rolling off the production lines in its Chicago plant...
Died. James Henry ("Jimmy") Hare. 89, veteran news photographer of the flash-powder era who took the first aerial picture of Manhattan, made closeups of five wars (Spanish-American, Russo-Japanese, Balkan, Haiti-Dominican Republic, World War I); in Teaneck...
...Rome. At the time, Diplomat Young is flirting with both Sylvia Sidney (the Militant Left) and Ann Richards (the International Set). An amiable, easygoing fellow, Robert doesn't instantly spot Mussolini as a menace to world peace. But Sylvia can see the big issues as quick as a flash. In fact, she is so shocked by Robert's hazy ideological thinking that she sorrowfully washes her hands of him. On the rebound, he marries Ann. From that day forward, the U.S. State Department is running with the Wrong Crowd straight toward World...