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...Morrison Shift. The Tories looked wan and depressed. After the echoes of senior Party Leader Winston Churchill's voice had died away at their Blackpool conference (TIME, Oct. 14), little solid matter was left. With Conservative Party policy only a. vague outline, the Tories could do little but peck pettishly at Herbert Morrison for using a Government automobile on a vacation trip...
Roxas refused, pleading ill health. Premier Tojo gave a dinner for him, and repeated the puppet proposition just before the meat course. Roxas explained about his health. Tojo sent three physicians to look him over. They found him in bed, weak, wan and sweating (Roxas, warned of their approach, had just been given a fever injection and had run up & down stairs). They diagnosed his trouble as hypertension...
Gray asked District Judge Che Wan Soon (male) of Cheju city what would happen if a Cheju male accused his wife of infidelity. "There would be a fight," said the judge, but he ventured no prediction of who would...
...most dangerous threat to Indian unity. He had repeatedly threatened that unless the Moslems were granted the separate state of Pakistan and complete independence from India's Hindu majority, he would sabotage all further negotiations, even if it meant civil war. After a three-hour conference, Jinnah was wan and grim, but he forced a tight-lipped smile for the photographers...
...story goes, a maiden lady named Susie Slagle kept a boardinghouse for medical students. She fed them well, jollied them along, nursed their emotional ills, let them draw giant-sized cross sections of hearts, lungs and livers on her upstairs wall. She also gave them a wan goodbye kiss when they went out into the world with their brand-new medical degrees...