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...Bamboo Mistake...
First man to fly across Long Island Sound was Millionaire Clifford Burke Harmon in a bamboo and piano-wire contraption in 1910. Pioneer Harmon has been the world's most air-minded amateur ever since. In 1925 he founded the Ligue Internationale des Amateurs, which he dreamed would become a sort of international flying police force called Silver Wings of Peace. Instead it has become merely a clearing house for records and a donor of awards. Last week, the Ligue, of which stalwart, 68-year-old Clifford Harmon is still kingpin, announced the latest winner of its most important...
...TIME, Jan. 4, p. 25, you state "when she grows up Su-lin will . . . eat nothing but bamboo shoots." In the same article you state that the baby giant panda's native habitat is "China's chilly Szechwan Province." It has been my belief that bamboo grows only in tropical or subtropical climates. The northernmost point at which I have seen it growing is just outside Jacksonville, Fla. and that is, 1 believe, at a Government experimental garden. Is there a different variety native to cold climates? Otherwise, how does this animal find bamboo in its native habitat...
Mountainous Szechwan Province is chilly in winter, temperate in summer. Bamboo, which is not confined to tropical climates, grows there. Su-lin's future bamboo shoots will probably come from Florida...
...Mahatma Gandhi is its Prophet. In case it should ever be argued that this native Congress does not represent any considerable number of the Indian people, Mr. Gandhi has secured the attendance of some 60,000 Congressmen at each normal meeting. They met last week in a swiftly-constructed bamboo and tent city near the village of Faizpur, 200 mi. outside Bombay, and the Mahatma laid aside for this occasion his recent preoccupation with the special problems of India's Untouchables and village industries. Mr. Gandhi now concerned himself and the Congress concerned itself with deciding whether...