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...rupees - Second bill from Cecil (August 2 -September 7). The Cecil is an island of Paradise in a political hell. On a cool white verandah the rulers of the British Raj sit sipping chota pegs and singing for the "kipnagar" (waiter) and talking about India as if it were something very far and remote and inconsequential in their personal lives...
...little old white-haired man at the head table looked embarrassed, his eyebrows arched with a sort of "Ain't this a hell of a thing?" curve. He wore the old familiar black suit, black string tie knotted carelessly in a bow. His hair was neatly plastered down, his spectacles freshly shined...
...call for a girl in a Radcliffe dorm, the maid downstairs rings a buzzer in that girl's room, sending her to the phone on her own floor. But usually they don't trust the buzzer, and almost anyone is apt to rush to the phone. They yell "Oh hell!" when you ask for someone else. If men don't call and there's not too much work to be done the ladies often drop outside for a coke and tomato and lettuce, or even (oh, not often!) a little farther for a daiquiri. And other week nights are taken...
...like women and I can recall a few instances where women have been known to be rather fond of me, but I am going to like women a hell of a lot less, if I ever get back to the old country...
...citizens suddenly find themselves really short of essential goods at the same time that stories crop up of similar goods rotting in depots abroad, there will be hell to pay. The moral was clear: unless someone coordinates North African civilian plans fast, the U.S. is heading for serious trouble both at home and abroad. If that happens, the usual good plan will have been wrecked by the usual bad planning...