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Singapore has been an Asiatic paradise for Occidentals and it was built to withstand attack from the sea. Singapore Harbor on the seaward side is protected by the strongly fortified islands of Brani, Blakang Mati, East St. John. Heavy and light guns perch atop the island's 1,000 hills. Location of the biggest guns of all, the 18-inchers, is a secret, but they are probably at the Changi entrance to Johore Strait. Around the entire island on all the beaches there are barbed-wire entanglements with concrete pillboxes at intervals...
...Lucien dies in the tenth reel, after the reunited brothers have toppled Colonna. The remaining half of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. lives on to win the girl and mouth such Shakespeareanisms as: "With love's light wings do I o'erperch these walls." But he doesn't perch the way his father...
...Swinburne on Emerson: "A gap-toothed and hoary-headed ape, carried at first into notice on the shoulder of Carlyle, who now in his dotage spits and chatters from a dirtier perch of his own . . . fouling...
Chinese Puzzle. In Ogdensburg, N.Y., a fisherman swore that he caught a pickerel, opened it, found a bass, opened it, found a live perch...
...stake. For Minnesota, undefeated this season, was ranked No. 1 in last week's Associated Press poll. Michigan, also undefeated, was ranked No. 3 (No. 2: Texas). The scrappy Wolverines, still clinging to Yost's "punt, pass and a prayer," were bent on kicking Minnesota off its perch...