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...caste-free South, accepted his "cigaret-stain" skin as a legacy from his mother (a Javanese princess, Oscar assured him). He returned to Oscar's farm a trained mechanic, looked like a "Rajah." The girls shouted when they saw him, "Oozit . . . Mygawdaineeflash ! " Abysmally unprepared for the Jim Crow strait jacket of Capricornia, he got an idea of his status from the white insults and the black friendliness...
...Cape Town last week rattled a troop train bound for Sonderwater Camp, 1,100 miles away. It was packed tight with mulatto soldiers and most of them were full of high spirits soaked up in Cape Town's cheap Jim Crow bars...
...with Errand. In a perfect democracy, run without hitch, Truman would never have been returned to the Senate in 1940. A majority of Missouri Democrats, in full revolt against the machine, opposed him in the primary. But Attorney Milligan and ex-Governor Lloyd Crow Stark split the opposition vote, and Truman slipped in with an 8,000-vote plurality. For a nation whose Administration, army and war contractors are not perfect either, it has turned out to be a good thing...
...game in the circuit. At the other forward is Captain Chuck Vigners, a veteran of countless cage campaigns. Jack Colberg, who tallied 19 points in the Penn massacre of Yale, is at center, with Larry Davis and Pat Sholvin, a capable pair, at the guards. They are an awesome crow...
Sixteen of the 39 persons aboard the big plane, including Jane Froman, American stago, screen and radio singing star, were being treated for injuries. The Clipper brought 26 passengers from New York and one from Horta, in addition to its crow...