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...Soir-never again, he says, will he write daily, as he did for 21 of his 32 years on the Echo de Paris. But for a sexagenarian, grey, thick-set Pertinax will be busy: he will also edit the weekly L'Europe Nouvelle, as he did after he split with Echo in 1938 over its appeasement policies. He intends to update his best-selling U.S. book, Gravediggers of France (Pétain, Gamelin, Reynaud, Daladier). Then at last it can be published, perhaps, in the country where the graves were...
...Russians Again. The Japs organized this country thoroughly: the south was the rice bowl, the north was the workshop (see map). Together the two parts formed a working economic entity; separated they are simply out of gear. The split along the 38th parallel is Korea's biggest, most galling problem. The border isn't closed, but no shipments are coming over...
...good actor, he played his first big role in knee-deep mud at Churchill Downs, ploughed theatrically from last to first to win the 1918 Kentucky Derby. Suddenly the silence of amazement was split by a colored boy waving his $2 ticket (worth $61.20) and shrieking: "'Ster-minator." After that Exterminator was known to millions by his right name-as well as by his nicknames, which ranged from Hatrack to Old Slim to Poison to Old Bones...
...Morning glories do not split open when bees make crash landings on them because five vertical ribs reinforce the blossom, and its overhanging lip holds it together. Frank Lloyd Wright "consciously duplicates" the principle in the columns in his Johnson's Wax building near Milwaukee, says Severud...
...Labor Department together, rested on the labor-management conference due to convene in Washington Nov. 5. Politicos devoutly hoped that the big confab might have a formula for peace before the entire automobile industry could be struck. But it looked as though Harry Truman was operating on a split-second timetable. His luck would have to be good to head off a complete shutdown in Detroit...