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...other side of India, northeast of Calcutta and south of the realm of the Bong of Wong, the Maharaja of Manipur celebrated his coronation-three years late. Because of the Japanese threat to India, he had postponed the ceremony. Taking to wife a third "wartime" bride on the advice of his high priest (three wives can better rule a ruler's heart than two in time of crisis), he had decided to wait patiently for the Japanese to go. Now, with the Japanese gone, he was back in his capital again. Up to his bomb-wrecked coronation hall...
...week there was hope that soon a small part of the need would be filled. If Chinese soldiers south of Myitkyina could fight the Burma-Ledo Road through, and U.S. engineers could follow them closely, as they had up to now, a route for supply from the U.S. via Calcutta and the Road would be opened to Chungking...
...Election Issue (printed in Bogotá) just one day later than subscribers in New York and Chicago. ¶ By the time you read this letter, the full election story will have galloped with TIME'S Pony Edition to our troops in Germany-flown with TIME'S Calcutta Edition to G.I.s deep in the jungles of Burma and India -reached interned U.S. airmen far in the north of Sweden through the pages of the Scandinavian Edition we print behind the German blockade...
...four printings) Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Classroom; TIME Canadian; TIME Air Express for Latin America (five printings); Export, Mexico City, Bogotá, Buenas Aires, Sào Paulo; TIME Overseas (three printings); Export Honolulu, Stockholm; TIME for the Armed Forces (seven printings); Pony, Pacific Pony, VMail, Sydney, Calcutta, Teheran, Cairo...
They arrived in Calcutta from Missouri, Texas and Tennessee-two shiploads of bewildered, seasick, lop-eared army mules. There was no time to train them for jungle warfare. Brigadier General Frank Merrill's Marauders loaded them with mortars, 755, ammunition, radio equipment, food, and started them off on a 700-mile trek to Myitkyina through the Burma jungles...