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On Chungking hill, the crowds in front of the crossroad billboards, where newspapers are posted for all to read, usually dwindle to worried little knots in the month of May. For in May the sky over Chungking is blue as new coolie cloth, just right for the terrible Japanese planes...
Barely three years ago, in his last year at Stanford, Jacoby wrote to his mother in Los Angeles about his first reporting assignments (part-time for the San Francisco News): "I think I am going to like being a reporter as soon as I get a little more confidence." In...
Day after he arrived home on a Norwegian freighter a friend called, asked: "Do you remember Annalee Whitmore?" At Stanford she had worked on the college paper with him. Now a scriptwriter for MGM, she wanted help to get a passport to China. Jacoby spent a week wire-pulling, announced...
After long, bitter weeks of misunderstanding, Chungking reported that the Chinese had at last reached an understanding with Great Britain's General Sir Archibald Wavell. King George conferred the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath on Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. The Chinese now feel free to send additional...
The odds on war between Japan and Russia before the end of 1942 shortened last week. From Chungking came word that the Japanese were speedily building defenses in Inner Mongolia, had already withdrawn some provincial-government departments behind the Great Wall. Allied Intelligence unearthed Jap plans to conscript native troops...