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...editor. Born in Edinburgh, educated in the U.S. (at Missouri's Park College), young Scotsman Dick got typhoid fever and was told by a doctor that sea air might keep his hair from falling out. So he shipped on a windjammer to Hong Kong, drifted to the Manila Times. Later he returned to the U.S., but after a freezing winter in Manhattan he went back to Manila for good. Said he: "I can make a living in New York if I have to-but I don't have to." In 1908, for one peso (50?), he bought name...
...that was long ago, and Editor Dick, still a bachelor, is now a fixture in Manila. The sea voyage did no permanent good. He wears a toupee abroad (in the Philippines it is too hot). At 50 he relaxed the temperance pledge given his mother, now drinks occasional light wines. He also relaxed his golf from 36 holes three times a week to 18 holes. But he is still a walking edition of Bartlett's Quotations, still a perfectionist in grammar, spelling, punctuation. (Result of this finickiness is a shining absence in the Free Press of the bamboo English...
...hand again this year to referee the struggle with the contents of the manila envelope is Stanley K. Leonard, graduate student who was in charge of last fall's registration. The only change in the rigamarole already familiar to upper classmen, according to Leonard, is that the envelopes contain one more card than they did last year. The new addition requests information regarding the status of students with respect to the Selective Service Act and is designed to give the University some idea of what is to become of the student body. Special regulations covering students who leave for military...
...itself the bill was enough to set Army tongues wagging in officers' clubs from Manila to Trinidad. They wagged faster because the measure had been drawn at the instance, not of meddling politicians, but of the War Department itself. It had the approval of Secretary of War Henry Lewis Stimson, Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall and all the rest of the Army's top crust, with one exception. That exception was the Quartermaster General, Edmund Bristol Gregory. True to Army tradition, he said little more than that he was against...
Many British and U.S. citizens had already left the Settlement. Their firms had transferred their offices to Singapore, Batavia, Manila. Taking their places were hundreds of Germans who had fled from the Philippines and The Netherlands East Indies, and who did not get on well with Shanghai's poverty-stricken colony of 18,000 anti-Nazi refugees. New and strange national quarrels flared up. In a dive on Blood Alley a group of White Russians drinking to Soviet success rioted bloodily with French sailors who objected...