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...Santa Anita, California's famous race track, would be near by; and who knows but what, with all that UNO salary money in circulation in the area, gambling at Tijuana and Agua Caliente might stage a glorious revival...
...There will be another crisis in the glorious military history of the Antilles Department when the General and his aides discover that the 31st of January and the 1st of February, both odd days, come consecutively...
Through these shadows, and a dozen others, one reality loomed: UNO was beginning to function. When the League of Nations opened the New York Times had gazed sadly at its own nonparticipating country and paraphrased Voltaire: † "Hang yourself, Crillon, for there has been glorious fighting and you were not here...
...programs the Boston Symphony? There has been a small rumor that it is the same man who chooses the Boston weather. At any rate, both have strange and glorious ideas, but the majority of them are bad. the prevailing philosophy of Symphony programs seems to be: any recent work by a reputable living composer is worth performance, but, to make up for subjecting our customers--to such difficult music, let us play pap such a Rachmaninoff, Sibelius, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Tchaikovsky. And, to hide the fraud, when we play Mozard, let us botch...
Jung Yao. Last month, in Chungking, Liu and 40 other cotton-garbed soldiers climbed, grinning, into a shiny American monster and flew off into the east. It was a jung yao (glorious) day for him. Shanghai was the most wondrous place he had ever seen. Above all, the Japs he had fled and followed for three long years were surrendering as meekly as meadow mice. It was like a dream...