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...expedition from the University of Pennsylvania found a big village of the shadowy Dorset people on bleak Melville Peninsula. The 208 rectangular houses, some of them 40 ft. long, are arranged in parallel rows for about a mile along the shore. The walls and roofs are gone, but the depressed floors remain. From under the dirt came nearly 3,000 tools, weapons and art objects. The Dorset people apparently had no boats, but they did have sledges which must have been pulled by humans, rather than dogs, because the Dorset dogs were too small for mushing...
...Last Time I Saw Paris is so phoney it hurts. In its return to the Continent from campaigns on the Italian peninsula Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has settled on a rework of the stock script about war-weary American youth in Europe. Ostensibly patterned after a Scott Fitzgerald novel, it somehow misplaces World War I and ends up occurring in 1945. Otherwise, it is Hollywood's latest testimonial to its own mixed up conception of gay, reckless Paris...
...little meaning: after next May 31 the Russians would still enjoy "joint use" of the Port Arthur base with their good friends of Red China. In any event, the Russians had the use of a second ice-free port at Dairen, a handy 25 miles up the Liao Tung peninsula from Pert Arthur. But the agreements let Peking spread the impression that it had been able to force the Russians to withdraw...
...storm smacked the tip end of Haiti's long, southern peninsula, neatly avoiding its mountain barriers, and danced disastrously across some of the island's most heavily populated areas. At Dame-Marie, floods and high winds killed 40; the towns of Jeremie and Aux Cayes were largely unroofed. The International Red Cross estimated that too people were dead and 100,000 homeless after the storm's brief passage. But Haiti foresaw as the storm's worst effect months of starvation for remote, hand-to-mouth villagers, whose subsistence crops of bananas and plantains were ruined...
...General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force, knocked down four Jap planes. When Chennault formed his Civilian Air Transport (CAT) to help the Nationalists against the Red Chinese in China, Earthquake signed up. Once the transport he was flying was attacked by Chinese Communist fighters over the Shantung peninsula, but "they missed," Earthquake explained laconically. Later, flying gasoline to the hard-pressed Nationalists in Kunming, he made a forced landing on a river sandbar in Communist territory. Six months later, Earthquake emerged from Communist China with a huge beard (they had taken his razor from him) and a cheerful...