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At 30, Garner has little to worry about: he made close to $100,000 last year by taking off in his own groove. Pittsburgh-born, he started at the piano when he was three, playing by ear the music he heard on the phonograph. At seven, he turned pro, played...
The normal condition of the Korean truce talks is deadlock. After a major concession by one side or the other, a brief spurt of progress usually follows, and then the deadlock settles down again. Hopeful observers who in July hoped for peace in August, and in October hoped for peace...
Principal crops: rice (more of which has to be imported to eke out the local supply), abaca (the famous Manila hemp), copra, sugar, corn, tobacco. The seasons: hot (March through June), rainy (July through October), cool (November through February). In the hot season, the government itself picks up & leaves Manila...
Grupa settles back into its traditional quiet poverty; the Germans are beaten back; the Americans come in. After the war Michele Rende returns a changed man: he has escaped from prison, fought with the partisans in the north, and picked up some of their radical ideas.
"I sometimes dream of a larger and more populous house, standing in the golden age, of enduring materials, and without gingerbread work, which shall still consist of only one room . . . ,a cavernous house . . . where some may live in the fireplace, some in the recess of a window, and some on...