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Through the golden-green wheatfields of Honan Province, the twelfth longest river in the world ran sluggishly thick with yellowish silt from the loess lands of China's northwest. On its soggy banks last week coolies toiled with hand and basket, shovel and wheelbarrow, pitting their sweat-shiny muscles against the river. Near Kaifeng dikes were rising to replace those destroyed in 1938 by the Chinese when they scorched the earth in the path of the Jap invaders. Before the dikes were opened the river had flowed northeastward into the Pohai Gulf. Afterward, it turned southeastward and ran into...
...fight for the heavyweight championship was just a week away. The accident of war had given it the longest, (five year) buildup in history and canny Promoter Mike Jacobs, who generally knows what the traffic will bear, had scaled ringside seats at an imposing $100 apiece...
...company has been shut since Dec. 26 in the nation's longest strike...
...Strike leaders tried to block the Welland and Cornwall Canals, vital links between Lakes Erie and Ontario, and Montreal. Strikers swarmed aboard the freighter Goderich in the Welland Canal, drove or dumped the crew ashore, lashed the ship to the lock. The canal was blocked for 24 hours, longest delay in its history, before a Government tug could move the Goderich...
Many Happy Returns. Broadway had been the brighter for revivals. The newly organized Theatre, Inc. (which played host to the Old Vic) had started Shaw's Pygmalion on its longest run; and Katharine Cornell had for the fourth time shined up Shaw's Candida. There was a double scoop of Shakespeare, too: Maurice Evans' brisk G.I. Hamlet and an agreeable Winter's Tale...