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...Chungking area, where Chinese pilots took them on. Jap bombs fell outside the city limits, did little damage. Reported ex-Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times: "Among the targets most valiantly attacked . . . were rice fields, vegetable gardens, flower gardens, one dammed-up swimming hole, clumps of bamboo, the mud banks of the Chialing River and the middle of the Chialing River itself. If it were not for the presence of the bloody, mangled corpses of Chinese coolies ... it would be a pleasure to describe this raid as a comic triumph of bad marksmanship and general stupidity...
...wooded Ruling, where the Generalissimo used to hold his open-air summer conferences in the years before the Japs came, it was Lin Sen's pleasure to place stone seats beside the pleasant walks among the rustling bamboo groves and within sound of the waterfalls. He had a warning carved on the seats: "He who keeps a concubine, keep...
Several of the girls who happened to the rowing on the Charles in the cool afternoon sent beaming smiles glowing over the water, perhaps accounting for the vigor with which all four platoons bang "Under A Bamboo Tree," "It's A Long Way to Tipperary," and "Around Her Neck She Wore A Yellow Ribbon...
...this ... 'Radcliffian can win Hollywood role in picture about Harvard Lampoon vs. Bamboo Starlets." With the Hays office, we prefer to let sleeping bags...
...thatched bamboo hut on Papua recently the Allied Papuan Medical Society held its fifth monthly meeting. The assembled U.S., British and Australian doctors listened to learned papers by some of their company on "Aviation Medicine in Combat," "Moral Fiber," "Fear," "The Fighter Pilot" and "Medical Air Service." There were exhibits on aviation medicine and the life cycle of local malaria-bearing mosquitoes, including a tank of live fish in the act of eating mosquito larvae. The doctors, said the report to the A.M.A. Journal, saw "a complete display of Japanese surgical instruments and appliances with many of their drugs...