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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...right and front, by about three companies of Chinese. One of my patrols picked the first ones up about 150 yards out. The Chinese charged in and overwhelmed us with a real mass attack. About three out of every ten of them were loaded with automatic weapons of some sort-Tommy guns, burp guns or automatic carbines. Others carried .25-caliber Jap rifles. They were all loaded down with grenades...
...London, old Storyteller Somerset Maugham, 76, took a realistic backward look: "I am very glad to be old because I know that we had a better life before 1914 than we have ever had since. When I look at my grandchildren, I anxiously wonder what sort of life lies before them...
...been checked, largely because taxes are more ruthlessly collected. Official bribery has undoubtedly decreased (because Communists are by nature more susceptible to the corruption of power than to corruption by money). No significant systematic land reform has taken place. There have been some paper land-reform measures, plus a sort of reform by political boodle, i.e., some supporters of the Reds have grabbed property owned by enemies of the Reds. The Communist propaganda hold on the lower and middle schools is increasingly effective. Many of the people are bitterly disillusioned with Communism, but they have no program for resisting...
Though long a popular draw in theater and nightclubs, Durante was never a top smash in either radio or movies (see CINEMA) . It now seems clear that TV was invented, in part at least, as a frame for his special talents. The dynamic Durante personality, a sort of mixture of W. C. Fields and Donald Duck, triumphs over old routines and standard jokes. In an opera cloak and top hat, he achieves a Chaplinesque dignity as he insists that Tannhäuser is by Puccini, and in his shocked horror at an ill-bred friend who, says Durante in moral...
Leave a Light. First of all, says Myklebust, parents must find out just what sort of deafness their child has. A few "deaf" children actually have perfect hearing, but because of psychological tensions, choose neither to speak nor to hear. Some children-the aphasiacs-can hear, but because of injury to the brain, can make no sense from the sounds about them and gradually come to ignore sound entirely. Other children can hear a few sounds, but not those in the range of ordinary speech. Still others hear nothing...