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Short, forceful, 40, he worked at Indusco with the nervous energy of a dye-stamping machine. He won Chinese workers by being able to tell jokes in many dialects, by adopting two Chinese sons, by repairing broken machinery with string, bamboo, chewing gum. All his work and hard travel (thousands of miles by bicycle) he endured not for personal gain but simply because he believed in China, in cooperative effort, in democracy...
First woman passenger ever to fly in an airplane was Edith Ogilvy Druce. (Date: Oct. 7, 1908. Place: Le Mans, France. Machine: a bamboo and piano-wire biplane. Position: seated in front of the wings. Pilot: Wilbur Wright. Duration: 3 min. Altitude reached: 97 ft.) Last week Expatriate Druce, sixtyish, two days after returning to the U. S., took her second flight as a guest of American Airlines in a modern transport plane over New York City. As a stewardess helped her into an armchair aboard the airliner, she called to the pilot: "Not too high...
...Livermore and Peter Garrett, both graduates and skiers of national repute, will probably lead the Harvard schussmen; but Del Ames, Roger Wilson, Finn Ferner and Phil Field will all place close behind, and all are expert at winding in and out of the narrowly set bamboo poles that constitute the slalom...
...specially constructed city of bamboo huts, roofed with waterproofed hubla nettings, equipped with waterworks and baths, deep in the malarious, tiger-infested Hazaribagh jungle of Bihar, over 100.000 Congress members had gathered. The site, Ramgarh village, had been chosen because 20 years' meteorological records showed it to be among Indian towns least subject to the torrential rains of March...
...Donahne is entered in the high hurdles, Bob Partlow and Johnnie Bunker in the high jump. Partlow cleared six feet in the K. of C. meet, but Hunker, a six footer of yore who should have the bamboo up to six feet, two inches by now, has yet to hit his stride. Donahne has been running well and in smooth form; he will have real competition is Shields of Yale and may be pushed to as extraordinary time...