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Ollie Reeves, poet laureate of the Atlanta Constitution, recently broadcast this ode to a plant whose exploits are becoming the talk of the South. Kudzu (rhymes with good zoo) is a vine which, say Arkansans, grows so fast that men drop kudzu roots into the ground and run. It has been known to grow as much as twelve inches in a single day, as much as 100 feet in a season...
Latest of the fast-growing list of "Chase Chorus Boys" is the eminent and spindly-legged Randy "Ghost" Phillips. Shades of Hollywood and Vine Appeared as the patrons of the Latin Quarter viewed the night beauty contest, and Phillips' frail physique. For dead old Harvard, Randolph came through, and received a bottle of wine for his efforts...
Nine months after the U.S. power drive in the Central Pacific left them to "wither on the vine," Japanese garrisons on four atolls in the Marshall Islands still held out last week. Almost daily they were pounded by aircraft, often they were bombarded by surface ships...
...Japs. Native guides who had escaped and promoted the rescue attempt were sent ashore to wake the sleeping villagers. Soon a weird flotilla of outrigger canoes was paddled to the warships. More than 700 natives were taken aboard, with their poultry and pigs. The Japs were left on the vine...
Said the Australian soldier: "It is all very well to say the Japanese in the Solomons and New Guinea are withering on the vine, but they take a bloody lot of withering." Many a "Digger" will swear that the fanatical, agricultural, fecund Jap, cultivating vegetable gardens in inaccessible jungle clearings, not only is waxing fat and happy but is intermarrying with natives to raise a new race of Bushido boys...