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Picketing of Automats, which had become almost as much of an institution in Manhattan as the Automat itself, came to a sudden end last week after five uproarious months. The strike was called last August by two unions, Bakery Workers and Cafeteria Employes, after they lost a collective bargaining election. Less than 500 of the 5,600 employes of the Horn & Hardart nickel-in-the-slot restaurant chain walked out, but what they lacked in numbers was more than made up in zeal. For the dispute soon boiled down to old-fashioned police-baiting. Immediate issue was the right...
Next day Bermuda papers, which up to this time had suppressed completely a story that was being printed all over the world, had to carry it at last when the Bishop of Bermuda came out with a statement publicly castigating himself: "The Bishop regrets that, yielding to a sudden impulse which he ought to have known better how to control, he so far forgot himself. . . . He realizes that he had no right whatever to take this arbitrary action. ... If this protest was needed, there is no possible excuse for the manner in which it was made, particularly...
After watching a grocery boy deliver a package of thing which he rather unromantically concluded were probably groceries, the Vagabond turned around briskly, and blinded by the sudden darkness, proceeded to run his finger up and down the card Catalogue until he found it was the back of a girl's checked cost. "Pardon me," he stammered, "I was looking for Gini." "Well, she's not here," came the answer...
...Nanking's greatest fear, which explains the sudden evacuation of the capital despite the fact that the Japanese troops are still 110 miles east of the city gates, is looting by Chinese troops-not fear of bombardment from Japanese warships. . . . Inside the Chinese lines the utmost confusion prevails. . . . Chinese troops have not been paid since August. . . . There is severe lack of food for front-line troops. . . . Demoralization had resulted from lack of attention for the Chinese wounded. . . . Then, too, might be added the strong resentment of the Chinese front-line troops at the fact that while they are under...
...DANGEROUS YEARS - Gilbert Frankau-Button ($2.50). Lengthy (686 pages), second-grade family chronicle about second-grade English nobility, relieved by well-spaced sudden deaths; by a veteran author, still doing business at the old stand...