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...India with China. Only then will Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell and his Chinese allies coming from Yunnan have made their objective. The road will also complete a backbreaking, distasteful job for dambuilder Brigadier General Lewis A. Pick-now a highway builder and the boss of Pick's Pike...
They still had many months of fighting ahead. But when Stilwell and Pick meet the Yunnan Chinese, Pick's Pike will be finished...
...father first let him drive his new 1902, curved-dash Oldsmobile. By the time he was eleven, Floyd was an agent (in Berthoud, Colo.) for Reo, Maxwell, Cadillac. In Floyd's motorcycling prime he broke a world's record for the 100-mile (71 min. 1916), a Pike's Peak record (26 min. 13 sec.; 1926), and his coccyx...
Miscellany: Byrne--he of the trigger mind--urges the shortening of the Harvard deal to a two-week stint . . . Orchild of the week to the Welfare Office for the Kid Xmas Party . . . Things we still don't understand: Why they call Pike "Conscienceless" . . . Section A has learned that the two-finger rule must be applied in more than one of their classes--ask Cook . . . Tomorrow will be the first "normal" working Nooyers Day for quite a few of the communicators . . . Until next week, HNY and all that...
With the coming of the first contingent of British aviation trainees to that station, Lt. Pike was connected with their training as a battalion administrative officer...