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Wellesley-educated Mme Chiang is not only one of the most potent political figures in the Orient, but the particular patron of Chinese aviation. She is reputed to O. K. the purchase of every plane personally. Quick to come to the defense of her aviators' shocking bad marksmanship she telegraphed in reply...
...patron saint of U. S. applemen, Johnny Appleseed, whose real name was Jonathan Chapman, was first recorded as a slim 25-year-old who in 1801 turned up in Licking County, Ohio, leading a packhorse laden with apple seed brought from a Pennsylvania cider mill. At suitable spots Johnny stopped to plant his seed in neat rows for the benefit of settlers to come.* Far in advance of the frontier he roamed, following Indian trails or pushing rude boats, always planting new seed and returning periodically to tend the young trees. Soon the whole frontier knew him, gladly gave...
...same Japanese heat wave did the Army some good. Ablaze with patriotism, Japanese geisha girls announced that they would charge one additional yen (20?) to each patron every time he complained of the heat, the money going to the Army fund. Girls from one popular tea house had collected over $100 by week's end. Heat, patriotism and disability caused Shimezo Maho, Tokyo merchant, to jump into the cold Pacific off the island Oshinta, leaving his $3,000 life insurance policy also to the Army fund...
...Belgium, France, on Chesapeake Bay and on the Caribbean Sea last week, St. Christopher, patron of travelers, nodded and Death came to nearly threescore people journeying by air, land...
...Commission stuck to its guns for a while in the face of clamor by the trustees, the committee and Mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton that Denver should have Ronnebeck or nothing. Leader of the Commission was fiftyish Anne Evans, weathered, spirited daughter of the first territorial governor of Colorado, patron of the summer theatre festival at Central City (TIME, July 26). Less exacting Commissioners began to waver when local ar- chitects declared that the Zorach memorial would not fit into Denver's $1,000,000 Civic Center. Then Mayor Stapleton dismissed two old members of the Commission, appointed...