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...Stefan, impressionable baker who could not endure the sight of hungry people looking through his window at freshly baked bread, escapes to the country where the "soft and quiet undulation of the wheat fields" gives him a momentary vision of unmeasured miles of wheat, of stores of food so enormous that no one need go hungry...
Before sunrise on the racetrack a mile away dockers glanced at stopwatches in their hands while horses, unnumbered and ridden by exercise boys or jockeys in sweat shirts, galloped through a soft summer mist. Events of the week...
...midget world is a wiliwili seed inside which fit 33 carved ivory elephants obtained from the Mayor of Bombay. There used to be 36 elephants but once, while Mr. Charbneau was showing them to Samaeka Pasha, president of the Coptic Museum of Cairo, all of them fell on the soft carpet. Though Samaeka Pasha, his wife and Collector Charbneau searched diligently, even using Mr. Charbneau's 2-in. Hoover vacuum cleaner, the three missing elephants were never recovered...
Caught flatfooted at the end of June by threat of a soft coal strike on July i, the President did not allow himself to be surprised a second time. Six days before the postponed strike was due again, he wrote to miners and operators asking them to postpone the strike a fourth time to Sept. 16. Graciously miners and operators accepted his "command," hoping for passage in the meantime of the Guffey Coal bill...
Crash! The motor car of the Chancellor of Austria and Frau Schuschnigg hurtled into a tree near Linz last week. She was instantly killed, her neck broken. He was flung on soft earth, missing a kilometer stone by a finger's length. The portly Schuschnigg nurse rolled over & over, clutching safely to her breast the Chancellor's 9-year-old son Kurt...