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Teddy set up shop in a bamboo-and-mud hut next to the Press Hostel's kitchens (he says it had the biggest cockroaches in town until it burned down last year), but he spent much of his time getting out to see for himself what was going on. For example, he was the first white man in 15 years to go into parts of Shansi province and come back alive. To get there he flew from Chungking to Sian (400 miles, five hours), went on by train to the Yellow River (70 miles, five days, one wreck...
...Japs had expected a long stay on Attu. Their food supplies were ample: shrimp and crab meat and bamboo shoots, spices and soy sauce and dried black seaweed for flavoring rice. They varied this diet by catching salmon and halibut, shooting Emperor geese and Yukon River ducks. They had hundreds of gallons of sake...
...difficult return journey some men went without food for long stretches. They ate bamboo shoots, mule steaks cut from their pack animals, elephant meat, boiled python, boiled grass. When they returned to the Indian frontier they were ravenous. Brigadier Wingate ate as much as his men, was asked by a solicitous general if he was not eating too heavily. Said he: "I find it quite impossible to overeat. During the march I read Xenophon and Plato's dialogues with Socrates. Now I find that moderation has become my guiding thought-wonderfully soothing...
...Australia. Just twelve months ago, clothed in the tragic glory of Bataan, he had come down from the skies to take command of United Nations forces in the Southwest Pacific. Australia would never forget the sight of him, striding confidently in his washed-khaki jacket, gold-braided cap and bamboo swagger stick, lifting Aussie hopes. His coming changed the country. His year changed...
...Cornelius ("Dutch") Warmerdam, a Piedmont, Calif, schoolteacher with a catlike spring in his legs. The world's only 15-ft. pole vaulter, Warmerdam has soared to that height or more 27 times in the past three years, has made fans expect a new record every time he grips bamboo. Last week the Flying Dutchman worked into the groove, nearly reaching the mezzanine with each leap. But the best he could do was 15 ft. 1½ in.-a new Garden record, but 6¼ inches under his own world's record...