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...went to high school together long before the incident at the Marco Polo bridge. He was one of the brightest kids I ever knew, and so completely American that his almond-shaped eyes were almost forgotten. I say "almost" because I remember very well one particular incident that might have had some effect on Ken's future...
...Chinese people (who called him "Old Leatherface") and to American airmen in his command, the news marked the end of a great era. Closer to Chiang Kai-shek than any U.S. military man, Chennault had, said one Chinese, "endeared himself to China more than any other foreigner since Marco Polo." Said one U.S. pilot: "We would rather fight with Chennault than any other man in the world...
...chronically happy German, Felix lacked any touch of Weltschmerz. In all his 38 carefree years, a political thought apparently never entered his head. He was born into a wealthy family, composed 60 pieces before he was eleven, was famed throughout Europe before he was 20. He became a musical Marco Polo who brought back from Scotland a Scotch Symphony, from the Hebrides Fingal's Cave, from Italy an Italian Symphony. His merits as a composer have been argued for a century. If his capricious music was not always profound, his mastery of technique sometimes concealed the fact...
...road to China. Already from Yunnan province another road was being freed to complete the route. Chinese forces who held that stretch had crossed the Salween River and last week were fighting for the road town of Tengyueh. With crude ladders they scaled the ancient walls built in Marco Polo's day, turned modern flamethrowers on the Japanese defenders. At week's end they had occupied the inner defenses. Between Tengyueh and Myitkyina there were no Japs...
...strained finance. But Erh Ch'i-July 7, the Double Seventh, the seventh day of the seventh month-would not be a happy day for the Chinese. It had not been a happy day since 1937, when the Japanese chose the Double Seventh to seize the Marco Polo Bridge near Peiping, begin the long "incident...