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Donald Marr Nelson, U.S. special envoy to China, was back in Washington after a strenuous month's trip around the globe. The ears of the ex-WPBoss still rang with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's encomium: "If it [the Nelson mission] had happened as much as one year ago, I believe the present situation would be far better." To Franklin Roosevelt, Don Nelson brought a heartening report. With the Generalissimo's full cooperation, the Nelson mission had launched at Chungking a Chinese...
There Is Much To Do. The school bell rang. The little girls bustled onto their narrow benches. Sister Elizabeth called the roll. Instead of "Hier!", the little girls answered "Ici", and giggled at the unfamiliar sound. Then Sister Elizabeth spoke in French, translating phrase by phrase into the Alsatian German dialect...
...night Hugo was entertaining the Duke of Hoven in his Virginia mansion. A dreadful scream rang out. A Negro child had been devoured by a monstrous fox. Nothing remained but a few bones, a pigtail, a pathetic scrap of petticoat. Hugo, Dev and the Duke leapt into the saddle, galloped madly after the fleeing...
What Has Tommy Got? On one occasion Assistant Littell waited for three days to confer with Mr. Biddle. Just after he finally got in to see him, the phone rang "and Mr. Biddle's remarks were about like this: 'Hello, Tommy. No-you don't need to come over here. You can come here or I'll come to your apartment, whichever suits your convenience.' It was clear that he preferred to have the Attorney General go there. My appointment was cut short and Mr. Biddle departed in about five minutes...
...days after the election, the telephone rang in the plush Chicago offices of the American Federation of Musicians...