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...loin cloth...
...lingerie was none other than that pious midget the Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He had amplified his customary loin cloth with a scarf thrown over his shoulders, and a cheap watch dangled from his waist. Perspiring porters rushed ashore with St. Gandhi's clattering collection of stew pans, his mattress, his cans of goat's milk and his suitcase. But there was no pourboires from the Mahatma...
Broiling sun beat down on Hankow, China last week. It was nearly 100°. On the roofs of their rickety houses, Chinese hoisted scraps of cloth for shade and gazed glumly at muddy water, five to 15 feet deep, that roiled through the streets, stretched as far as they could see. On rafts made of doors, on treasured family coffins, on crude inflated goatskin life-preservers, on junks and sampans, refugees from outlying districts were cruising aimlessly. An Associated Press man went about in a sampan to see what he could see. At one point his boatman nosed...
Well-beloved, well-hated, "Tommy Arkle" wore garish clothes, big rings, liked to be told that he was the best dressed man on the campus, glowered quizzically over his spectacles as he talked with his students. Quietly, firmly he made his impress upon Illinois, abolishing naughty fraternities (Kappa Beta Phi, Theta Nu Epsilon), fraternity "hell week," freshman hazing, student ownership of automobiles. He is fond of proper fraternity life, interested especially in his own Alpha Tau Omega. Like Edward, Prince of Wales an accomplished fancy-worker, he knit sweaters for soldiers during the World War, has lately turned his attention...
Actual El Dorado is bleak, barren, devoid of game, but infested with "mosquitoes an inch long-armed with weapons which seemed capable of penetrating the stoutest khaki cloth, and were." The place is at Lat. 2:25:30 North, Long. 63:45:31 West, in Brazil just east of the Venezuelan boundary. It is due south of Halifax, just above the Equator, and about 2,000 mi. from the Orinoco delta...