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McGowan told Gerstley, and H. Norman Richards '50, in Richards' room in Dunster House, that he had been in Bangor, Maine, and was hitch-hiking to New York, where, he said, he was employed on a Standard Oil Company tanker due to leave for Rangoon within the next few days...
Thousands of Burmans caroused amiably along Rangoon's steamy, tropical waterfront. Some still recalled the day in 1885 when Burma's last king, brash Thibaw, sailed into exile and the British took over. Now, British rule...
Four members of the National Student Association will travel to Prague, Czechoslovakia or Rangoon, Burma, this summer to determine whether or not the NSA affiliates with the International Union of Students...
Nobody but Americans. From Calcutta to Rangoon they had to stop at every good-sized rice paddy-George had picked up "Delhi belly." In Hanoi, a Frenchman told them not to bother about showing their passports, everybody knew "nobody but Americans would do a damn fool thing like this." They sat out a typhoon in Hong Kong, a binge and hangover at Amoy. Flying in loose formation, they worked out a bit of dialogue to pass the time on their long hops. Cliff: "We're lost, but we're making good time." George: "We're broke...
...white-hulled, white-topped, square-rigged ships, "with no steam at all." First of his family to follow the sea, he left his Lake District home for the long (about 100 days each way) run through the clean seas that lie between Liverpool's dirty Mersey and Rangoon's dirty Irrawaddy. Out with salt and back with rice, Captain Illingworth remembers now. "It was a hard life and a good life," he says, "and I like to think there will never be a better way of learning this trade. We used to say, 'When I leave...