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...youth on her first trip to the city in six years. Said she: "New York looked different then. I think the buildings looked taller, but maybe it's because I was shorter." She teamed up with her oldtime dancing partner Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson to do a shim-sham-shimmy before 50,000 in Central Park. Exclaimed modest Miss Temple: "I haven't done this since I was seven, so excuse me if I'm not so hot." Said Robinson: "Honey, you haven't done this since you were four. So it's going...
...Administration finally gave in to John L. Lewis' wage demands (see col. 3). Technically, giving the miners $1.50-a-day raise, plus travel time, did not violate the formula. But this sham legality did not obscure the important fact: now that John Lewis has breached the line, the Administration can no longer hold back wage demands by other unions...
...practically every fence post along the 4,000-mile right-of-way, armed soldiers stood guard.* Hawkeyed secret-service men swarmed about the roped-off stations. At the stops were cheering crowds, parading soldiers, marching WAACs; and always, above, clouds of planes. At Fort Benning, Ga. there was a sham battle with deafening noise-an improvised grenade (a potato stuffed with gunpowder) hit the President's car; at Maxwell Field, Ala. the signals got crossed: soldiers puffed 15 times over the obstacle course before a halt was called. After the Army camps came the Douglas bomber plant at Tulsa...
...There is no 'best' book of the month. . . . The attempt to choos a 'best' book . . . is an absurdity . . . an intellectual sham...
...proceedings became even more like real war when the armies began to break the rules of sham battle. In the Blues' prison camp the entire haul of Red prisoners overcame their guards by violence, ran back to their own side to fight again...