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...American came to India last week not to lecture but to listen. In the famine-stricken provinces of Madras and Mysore, Herbert Hoover rode over chokingly dusty roads past rocky farmland and dried-up streams. The coal-black natives crowded around his car. "One family here lives on four to eight annas' (8? to 16?) worth of grain a week," they told him. "We are now eating only one meal every two days...
Said she: "This is the house in which my husband was born and brought up. He loved this house. . . . Here he played as a child. . . . Here he spent the summer, nine months after he was stricken. . . . Here he grew strong. . . . So it is with no regret that . . . I see this house and its contents dedicated to the people . . . whom my husband loved...
Died. Edward Brewster Sheldon, 60, once-prominent U.S. playwright (Ro mance, Song of Songs); of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan. Stricken with progressive paralysis in 1923 and total blindness in 1931, he remained to the last very much part of the Broadway scene, heard and passed on most scripts before they were produced, made his East 84th Street apartment the gathering place of Katharine Cornell, Helen Hayes, John Barrymore, a stageful of others...
...mountains near Nanking, amid the wreckage of a transport plane, a charred body lay. A scrap from a woolen sweater, a bodyguard's pistols, the testimony of a grief-stricken aide identified the fire-eaten remains as those of General Tai Li, one of China's most mysterious, most respected and most dreaded men. There was no official announcement of his death. But Lieut. General Cheng Chieh-min, 47, the Government's Moscow-educated G-2 chief, was named to succeed Tai Li as head of China's secret police...
...helicopters will flutter down to take samples of the atom-stirred water. Then six small gunboats, also with Geiger counters, will approach the dread lagoon, sampling the water and reporting by radio. Next, a swarm of 20 launches, manned by raincoated scientists, will scoot like water bugs among the stricken ships. Finally, if all pioneers report that the coast is clear, the Navy's Bureau of Ships, its medical units, and its associated scientists will enter Bikini Lagoon to see what the Model-T bomb has done to the U.S. Navy...