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Catholic Bishop Paul Yu-pin returned to Chungking last week from a tour of the stricken areas. In Loyang he saw bundles of leaves being sold to refugees for food, a dollar a bunch. Children's bellies were bloated and distended with such Foodstuffs. Sometimes starving families collect all remnants of food in their homes, eat their last meal and then commit suicide. While the Bishop was visiting one village, a farmer gathered his family round him, fed them their last full meal and then told them he had poisoned the food they had just eaten...
...Lake-with-her-hair-up, who is playing Madvig for a sucker but has a glad eye for Friend Beaumont; 2) her father, a corrupt politician, Madvig's candidate for governor; 3) her playboy brother, who gets murdered; 4) a gelid gambling boss (Joseph Calleia) who tries to pin the murder on Madvig...
...hostages were together in one cell. Hostage Prokosch, a famous actor, "confessed" to the "murder" because a heroic exit would let him die believing that he was a better man than his wife's lover, Hostage Lobkowitz. Hostage Preissinger, who wanted to save his skin, tried to pin the murder on Hostage Janoshik, stalwart member of the Underground movement. Dr. Wallerstein, psychoanalyst and Hostage No. 5, asked only that he be allowed to record the psychological behavior of his four doomed mates, so that his memory would live as the author of a unique case history...
Although the Dean spent the early part of his career around the University, fifteen years of corporation presidencies and directors' meetings have left him with a Greenwich estate, a suave manner, and a liking for Adironack vacations and double-breasted pin-stripe suits. On the other hand, he still smokes cigarettes and has time to tell jokes to his staff. Dean David's years of experience in the world of the entrepreneurs has made the rapid organization, of critical war courses possible. When things are really popping, he calls a meeting, tells a few jokes to lessen the tension...
President Roosevelt in his fireside chat grappled with the manpower problem but failed to pin it down. He told the American people bluntly that the present situation is intolerable and a few concrete steps were outlined. "We shall be compelled to stop workers from moving from one war job to another; to stop employers from stealing labor from each other; to use older men, and more women; and to stop the wastage of labor in all nonessential activities." But nowhere did the President explain who is to do the job, when it must be done, or where the authority will...