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...personally austere, publicity-shy, reticent. He talks to the press only off the record and says to correspondents: "Remember, if you print that, out you go." Even his wife could not pry out of him his destination when he left for Africa. She found some mosquito-repellent lotion in his luggage, said: "I think I know where you're going." He said: "Look some more." She did, and found anti-frostbite lotion...
...comparison with Russian single-mindedness, the Chinese press has an almost democratic diversity and vivacity. No newspapers have been suppressed outright except the "mosquito" tabloids which before the war achieved a lewdness beyond description. Competing for readers in Chungking are 13 dailies, including the Communist paper, the "liberal" Ta Rung Pao, the Roman Catholic Social Welfare Daily (Yih Shih Pao), the racy evening tabloid, New People's Daily (Hsin Min Pao), and the official Kuomintang and Army sheet, Central Daily News (Chung Yang Jih Pao), which has a partly free circulation of 150,000-perhaps more than...
Last week Japan's Premier Hideki Tojo exhibited his Chinese puppet government to Axis diplomats. In Nanking, Tojo ordered 35 mosquito boats to fire a 21-gun salute. Japanese and puppet Chinese troops paraded on the third anniversary of Traitor Wang Ching-wei's Nanking regime...
Lithe, little and lively, bustling as a Jersey mosquito, Studebaker worked his way through a now extinct cow-college as a bricklayer, got a Columbia master's degree, taught school, served as national director of Junior Red Cross in World...
Heard on the steps of Cowie Hall... one ensign says to t'other ensign ... "Let's get out of here before we get trampled on. Here comes the Mosquito Battalion."...and, so help me Wopeco, a guy at my table said last Friday, "Please pass the erasers...