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...Jean-Pierre Abeille, prefect of Savoie, descended on the village with 350 armed Republican Security Guards. Before anyone could sound a tocsin on the church bells, M. Abeille had seized the municipal records, thus putting the village officially out of existence. Warned M. Abeille: unless the villagers moved out forthwith, they would get no compensation money...
...painful eye disease, and picked up a hobby. For his ailment, Commander I. V. Gillis, U.S. naval attaché in Peking at the time, recommended an ancient Chinese eye medicine, concocted and sold by a Peking family. The medicine eased the engineer's pain, and he decided forthwith to begin collecting a library of Chinese medical books. In due time, Engineer Gest went back to the U.S., but before he left he commissioned Navyman Gillis to act as his agent and expanded his library idea to include all Chinese culture...
...collapse ... It is a terrific shock to me . . ." Next day Hearst's King Features, which syndicates Winchell in some 600 papers, tacked the news on the end of his column. The New York Post, which has been roasting Winchell in a series of articles (TIME, Jan. 21), forthwith announced that it was postponing publication of the last six installments of the series. Said the Post: "We believe in the old journalistic principle that a newspaper should not argue with a man while he isn't in a position to answer back...
...Forthwith a guide...
...Moby Dick, I Want You will not become a classic. Nor is it about whales. As a matter of fact, the only point of similarity is that the picture can be looked at from seven different sides--or on seven different levels, if you prefer--all at one sitting. Forthwith the levels...