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Pacific Seas. Clinton's second cafeteria is the Pacific Seas. He and his wife selected tropical materials for it in Hawaii last fall. Its giant bamboo came from Formosa. Its façade has a 15-foot waterfall; inside is a goldfish-filled brook. Fantastic lights combine plastic and neon flowers. Many Californians think it's grand...
...Negro schoolchildren in Jacksonville. Author is the late James Weldon Johnson, writer, lyricist, educator, first Negro to become a U.S. consul, secretary for 14 years of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Composer is his equally famed brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, popular song writer (Under the Bamboo Tree, Nobody's Lookin' but the Owl and the Moon), collector and arranger of spirituals, onetime musical director for Oscar Hammerstein, now (at 69) a minor actor in the revival of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. The Johnson brothers thought little of their song after finishing...
...sweat about the weather. Through a veil of haze, stars twinkle only dimly. It rains and we find shelter in a bamboo alert shack. Towheaded Captain Charles Sawyer, who is to lead our fighter escort, walks around with a haunted look. For seven months, over Burma, Siam and Indo-China, he fought in the old A.V.G.; then he joined the Army when most of his buddies went home. Three weeks ago he got lost in a storm, crashed his plane in the mountains near Tibet, escaped three firing squads of hill tribesmen, walked back into China proper...
...rain drizzles through the bamboo bars on us. Major Del Bailey, flight leader, says: "I'll go up and look around. If it's clear I'll flash on one navigation light. . . ."I climb into the bomber with him. Above, we find a clearer spot in a squall and flash on one light. Up after us come the rest of the bombers and peashooters [fighters]. As dawn breaks we are off for Canton...
...were ordered to follow the Chinese Sixth Army down to Loilem and left some time in February. When we got there they told us we would have to serve the whole army, not just one division. We went back and set up a base hospital in Loilem-bamboo huts and wards on a hill out of town, a lovely joint...