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Fantastic carvings and the Oriental grandeur of its appearance contrast with the simplicity of the Colonial red brick by which it is surrounded on all sides, and add a touch of Kiang Province, home of the monument for over a century, to the otherwise austere College Yard. Situated just west of Widener Library, about midway down the length of the building, the white marble structure is well preserved despite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEIRD CHINESE DRAGON IN YARD ONCE OWNED BY CH'ING DYNASTY | 9/12/1944 | See Source »

Thomas Dudley Harmon was about to score again. The Army Air Forces pilot and peacetime All-American halfback, shot down by a Japanese Zero near Kiu-kiang, was safely on his way, escorted by Chinese guerrillas, to the advanced Lightning Fighter Base somewhere in China. Waiting for him there were his first lieutenant's bars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 13, 1943 | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

Reported Missing in Action. Army Air Forces Lieut. Thomas Dudley ("Tom") Harmon, 24, Michigan's onetime All-America halfback; since Oct. 30; over China. His promotion to first lieutenant came one day after he failed to return from an attack on the Yangtse River port of Kiu-kiang. Last April he bailed out of his Army bomber "Old 98" over the jungles of French Guiana (he was the plane's only survivor), last August brought down a Jap Zero over Hong Kong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 15, 1943 | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

...China flyers ranged farther. On another raid they swept down river to Kiu-kiang (see p. 25), broke up a Jap concentration. They punched at Nanchang and, it was reported, at Hong Kong. Greatest wonder of all: they ranged southeast all the way to Canton, caught the Jap's planes on the ground, blasted 50 to 60 of them to bits. This week, over Szechwan, they broke up a 50-plane Jap bombing party headed for Chungking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF CHINA: Proof by Chennault | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

...other hand," said Chung Kiang Chu. "We can't allow ourselves to be sad, because even though I feel very sad, I might even say mighty sad, at the present time, and what is time, after all?" asked Chung Kiang Blooie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/7/1940 | See Source »

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