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...That has nothing whatever to do with it," snapped the Briton. "Smuggling from Hongkong is almost entirely conducted by Chinese of a low order, while North China's financial and economic status is being upset by Japanese and Koreans...
Backstage Toscanini quickly recovered. Not really blinded, he had been dazed, upset, enraged. Cameramen have long been requested not to use flashlights near the Maestro's weak eyes. The request was disregarded when he arrived in the U. S. last January. Last week the shock was greater because he was under a heavier strain. After his next-to-last concert when the audience stood cheering him for 15 minutes, Toscanini had shut himself up in his dressing-room and wept...
...upset that startled France most was that of Edouard Herriot. For the first time in his political career he failed to win his seat on the first election. Apparently the voters of Lyon felt not so guilty as he had hoped over France's failure to pay its War debt to the U. S. Piqued, M. Herriot cried loudly that he would retire forever from politics, a statement that required a soothing long-distance call from Premier Sarraut before M. Herriot would consent to participate in a run-off that should be a walkover...
...Onto a platform at Philadelphia's Temple University climbed Oswald Garrison Villard, oldtime editor of the Nation, to deliver a ringing peace message. Into the meeting charged a flying wedge of unsympathetic Temple athletes who pelted the demonstrators with lemons and vegetables, triumphantly upset the speakers' platform...
...antlike Manhattan broker finds his Russian wife's family a strangely charming incubus; upset and then educated by their grasshopper example, he discovers how much he loves his wife...