Word: nanning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ittai nan dai?" (What on earth is that?) cried a startled Japanese officer as a burst of elephant-gun fire whistled past his ears and a troop of half-naked Nagas leaped out of the bushes. He found out, but too late. He and his jungle patrol were wiped out. But last week other Japs who had survived the fight in northern Burma knew more about the Naga raiders and their leader. The half-naked tribesmen from northeastern India were directed by a white woman: pert, pretty Ursula Graham-Bower, 30, an archeology student who looks like a cinemactress...
Hatched. Now bigger than the whole Corps was in 1917, Marine aviation got its start in 1911 when a brash U.S.M.C. lieutenant named Alfred A. Cunningham disturbed the serenity of the Philadelphia Navy Yard by hopping around in a rented plane ($25 a month) nicknamed "Noisy Nan." Not satisfied, he instigated among Philadelphia politicians a campaign for a Marine Corps flying field. To shut him up, the Navy offered him flight training. So the Corps's aviation division spread its wings...
...dares try to cope with it. The fevers of China creep into bodies which exist day after day on 24 oz. of rice. From this rice the heroes of China have to draw their fats, vitamins and carbohydrates. Only the northern troops of provident General Hu Tsung-nan have any health, for he made his men grow their own greens to add to their scant rations...
Toward the Front. He flew northward 275 miles to Sian. In the drizzling rain at the airport he was met by the most important person in North China, Major General Hu Tsung-nan. It is the crucial job of stocky, 42-year-old General Hu, with China's finest troops, to prevent the Japanese from crossing the Yellow River bend near Sian. The front has been stationary there for three years. If the Japanese ever got bridgeheads, they might then find it easy to conquer Chungking from the north...
...rabbit, a seaman shaving in a hurricane, slapsticky Lou Costello is a successful clown. But most of it is South Sea stuffing, Hollywood style, with only two notable exceptions: a breakaway tune called Vingo Jingo (authors: Don Raye and Gene DePaul), and radio's vibrant-voiced Nan Wynn, now visible for the first time after her anonymous role as Rita Hayworth's singing voice in My Gal Sal (TIME...