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...Italian minds more vividly than any other calamity of the. war. Day after day black-clad men & women, carrying huge bundles of flowers, trudge up a barren hill six miles south of Rome to the dismal caverns, where candles burn day & night by rows and rows of plain pine coffins...
...time, as his fame spread, he spoke to wide-eyed audiences from Nova Scotia to Los Angeles. As he became a showman, the Service sagas became Mike's own: he had actually witnessed the shooting of Dan. Last week, Klondike Mike, white-haired, but still straight as a pine, chatted about the good old days: "There aren't many oldtimers like me left any more . . . You know, I used to know old Dan McGrew. He was a big hulking fellow. He'd shoot a man at the drop of a hat. I remember the night...
Elusive Souvenir. Another visitor to the front was King Paul. From his observation post, with field glasses, he could see a big sign in the thick pine woods atop Mount Ammouda bearing the letters D.S.E. (Democratikos Stratos Ellados-Democratic Army of Greece). Artillerymen explained that they were trying not to hit the sign, since they hoped to capture it as a souvenir...
...Avenida Morelos, the men of the Department of Soil Conservation studied their maps, graphs and statistics, concluded that the chances were small that the Mexican land would feed its people well. Four hundred years ago Cortes had reported that the richness of Mexico was inexhaustible. Since then, the pine forests that held rain water on the mountain slopes have been cut away. The result has been drought. The Indians have lost their skill in terracing their fields, and their lands are gullied and eroded...
...eight babies have died of infant diarrhea in San Antonio's untidy West Side Mexican slum district during the past month, shocking the city into a belated cleanup campaign. D. A. Richmond's coffin factory was working overtime filling orders for its smallest size: a two-foot pine box, covered with white lambskin cloth, that sells...