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...living room last week, grey-haired Pa John Harrington, 68, worked long hours at a grinder, grinned when the sparks flew, sometimes muttered: "I have more fun than a kid in this place." Buxom Ma Harrington, 58, wearing a house dress tucked into overalls, operated a lathe. Twins Richard and Russell, 34, wangled new orders, worked at machines, swept out the place at night, often were on the job 16 hours out of 24. Mrs. Richard kept books. Mrs. Russell did all the cooking...
...Warriors. But where tiny Wong has kept charts, the burly chieftains of the famed Ma clan of Moslem warriors have kept their own armies in the Northwest. ("Of ten Moslems, nine are Ma; he who is not a Ma is then surely a Ha.") Most powerful and progressive of the clan is bushy-bearded General Ma Pufang, governor of the province of Chinghai, who has his own crack army of 50,000 men. The soldiers of his elder brother, General Ma Pu-ching, lord of the Kansu panhandle, completed the road to Russia in 1938, now are working on another...
...neglecting to call a special session of the legislature to vote funds for civilian defense. Governor Heil, who has made a big success as a manufacturer of everything from oil burners to snowplows (and is proud of it), ignored his critics, boasted that he was "meting out justice to ma and pa." He won his party's nomination easily. Probable November result: his three opponents (Democratic, Progressive and Socialist) will divide the anti-Heil vote, send Julius the Just back for his third term...
...about WAAC food, clothes, beds (short-sheeted by male Army pranksters), orchids, sore feet, the first ride in an Army truck, the lingerie drying racks in the laundry, the cannon at reveille, the embarrassed male non-com who said: "You in the blue dress, step forward," the use of "ma'am," the cigarets in WAAC lockers...
First reports indicated that General Ma, whose clan holds the power of potentates among China's 15,000,000 Moslems, had submitted to banishment by Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Actually the "banishment" was a tribute to the Gissimo's policy of giving Moslem leaders authority with responsibility. For it was General Ma who in 1937-39 dismounted his cavalry and put them to building the Kansu-Sinkiang highway over which Russian supplies traveled to the Chinese army. Now, with Russia embattled and the Burma Road closed, General Ma was again being asked to do the impossible. Nearly cornered, China...