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...Christmas season would offend Hollywood's sense of dramatic values. Along Hollywood Boulevard, the street lamps are covered with those decorations which are not real trees, or even slavish representations of real trees, but interesting, frankly synthetic designs frosted in colored lights. And along Wilshire and Sunset the roadside stands are gay with little trees sprayed in pale blue, white, pink and lavender. At this time, Hollywood would like everyone, particularly itself, to wear a cheerful face...
Sunrise to Sunset. Chiang had counted on sustained U.S. aid. He had not got it. By last week, in addition to the territory Chiang had lost to the Reds (two-fifths of China), the Nationalists had suffered troop casualties of perhaps 1,800,000 men -a third of them lost as prisoners and turncoats since last July...
...sense, that he-and they -had failed. One measure of that failure, some of them felt, was the performance of Chiang's own Whampoa Academy generals. Said one Chinese bitterly last week: "They are old and tired; in 20 years they have passed from the sunrise to the sunset." Some had turned carpetbagger. In one instance, soldiers defending Mukden watched a planeload of payday currency signed over to an army general and flown back to his bank in Shanghai. The government now knew that it did not have to tolerate abuses like that. It showed that it could learn...
...knows that I never made any such statement. What I said was this: 'The minute anyone demands a business administration and elimination of the leeches in the Government payroll, they squeal like a stuck pig.' " *A local delicacy which can be shot only between 4 p.m. and sunset on three days a year...
...with the dealers, who have their own ideas of what a painting by the country's best-known "primitive" should look like. When Grandma paints a picture that seems not quite in character, her dealers sadly send it back. One such reject hanging over her mantel shows a sunset above a Western canyon, with a log cabin in the foreground. "What one likes," says Grandma philosophically, "another don't." Another of her favorite rejects is a storm scene, with black clouds lowering in a pink sky. "Dr. Kallir [one of her dealers] wants me to change...