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...Orangeburg...
Worldly Goods. In Orangeburg, S.C., Negro Willie Davis, filing a chattel mortgage, listed among his belongings "one wooden leg, dark brown, used...
...JAMES R. WOODRUFF Orangeburg...
This hodgepodge of Basic English, pid gin French and Southern drawl, punctuated by flyers' gestures, is the lingua franca in use at a U.S. Army school for French Army aviation cadets. Before they arrived at Hawthorne Field in Orangeburg, S.C., the French trainees, fresh from service abroad, were taught 40 hours of Basic English. Meanwhile the field's American instructors were given a short course in French. But when the two groups met in the pressing routine of learning to fly, rote-learned vocabularies vanished in the propwash...
...eagerness to be cordial to the Frenchmen, sleepy little Orangeburg also has run into minor misunderstandings. When a local girl told a Frenchman she slept in the same bed with her roommate, his eyebrows rose; finally someone explained what a roommate is. Another gave a hopeful start when a proper young Orangeburger at a party one warm night remarked in her best high-school French: "Je suis chaud" (literally, "I am warm," idiomatically, "I'm feeling sexy...