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...m.p.h. gale out of the North screamed across Hakodate Bay as the shadow of night ran across the city, slid up the pine-covered face of Hakodate Head and The Peak, and enfolded the secret forts on the heights. The crows flapped up from the garbage in the slums to be whirled helplessly to the base of the two peaks, where they dropped on limp wings. Children hung their snow sleds beside the door and squatted down to a Hokkaido (Japan's New England) supper of fish, beans and rice. In the Bay a forest of masts swayed wildly...
...widow of General George Armstrong ("Last Stand") Custer: $101,492, to relatives and Vassar College; a white towel certified to be the first Confederate flag of truce and a white linen handkerchief used as a truce signal by Custer at Appomattox, to the U. S. War Department; a pine table used in the Grant-Lee surrender ceremony, a letter presenting the table to Mrs. Custer by General Phil Sheridan, Custer's sword & scabbard and other mementoes, to the Smithsonian Institution...
...allowed to con tinue on the board are all big businessmen. West by Southwest. Wilson McCarthy is one, a smart Salt Lake City lawyer whose pony-express riding father left him a cattle fortune. Another is that husky lover of detective stories, rich Public Utilitarian Harvey Crowley Couch of Pine Bluff, Ark. And from the most spacious State of all is the man who dominates RFC's policies, has dominated them since the agency's re birth-Chairman Jesse Holman Jones, a Texan now become a titan. When Jesse Jones is out of Washington...
Because of cold and snow the 9:45 express train from pine clad Sinaia into Bucharest was delayed one night last week. A fair-sized crowd was on the station platform, for nearby is the extravagantly turreted palace that is King Carol's country home. Impatiently awaiting the train were Premier Ion Gheorghe Duca, hurrying back to the Capital after a conference with the King, former Mayor Costinescu of Bucharest and Secretary General of the Legislative Council Michel Vlashide. Frugally all three bought third class tickets. They did not notice a group of university students at the other...
...Australia, Captain William E. ("Sharky Bill") Young has learned not to be surprised at anything he finds when he rips open a shark's belly. He has discovered tin cans, horses' hoofs, a small pig, bottles, parts of other sharks. Once, in a shark caught off Big Pine Key, Fla., he found a man's arm, six pieces of human flesh and a square of cloth from a blue serge coat...