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...code duello, is entitled to choice of weapons, jpbj may arm himself with cow dung and shingles at the respectful distance of 40 paces, standing with his face to the wind. . . ." The "jpbj" was, as all Mississippians knew, Judge Paul B. Johnson (later Governor), Sullens' bitterest political foe. In May 1940 Johnson attacked Sullens with a cane in a Jackson hotel lobby; both men were bloodied in the ensuing battle...
...foe; and every even word was hate...
Often-and eloquently-it speaks Japanese. Because short-wave reception has been banned in Japan, XGOY talks to its foe (by relay) through China's most powerful medium-wave station XPRA at Kunming. Some of the broadcasters are Chinese who were born or raised in Japan. But the most potent are anti-imperial Japanese taken prisoner by the Chinese armies. They are men who have convinced themselves that only a common cause with the Chinese can save the people of Japan. Their fiery opposition is not restricted to the Japanese militarists; it is directed also at the Emperor...
...mystery of the starfish is how he can be such a successful foe of clams and oysters. He attaches his sucking "tube-feet" to a bivalve, opens it, inserts his mobile stomach, eats and digests his victim. But apparently the starfish lacks the strength to open an oyster. In doing that job, a human being usually appreciates the aid of a knife. The force required was reported in Science last week by Professor Albert Moore Reese of West Virginia University. He pulled oysters and clams apart with a large spring scale attached to steel hooks inserted in notches...
...more than two decades Artist Peggy Bacon has been impartially decapitating friend & foe with neat strokes of her pen, pastel and pencil. She has also illustrated children's books. Last week a huge retrospective exhibition of Baconiana at Manhattan's Associated American Artists Galleries gave gallery-goers a chance to see what her art added up to. Of 142 exhibits, covering the walls of four large rooms, Bacon-lovers saw 35 pastels (including twelve caricatures of men & women who nevertheless remain Miss Bacon's friends), 74 drypoints (including The Socialist Meeting and Backstairs Gossip), 13 etchings (including...