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...Mississippi. He "was a pert little monster, glib and shameless. . . . The people loved him ... not because they were deceived in him, but because they understood him thoroughly; they said of him proudly: 'He's a slick little bastard.' " Next time they threw out Percy Sr. "Wai," said an old man, wet with tobacco juice and furtive-eyed, "the bottom rail's on top and it's gwiner stay thar." That was Percy's "first sight of the rise of the masses, but not my last...
...dark. But early one morning last week Japanese warships and transports steamed out of the mist into Bias Bay, 40 miles north of Hong Kong, landed a force reported at more than 10,000 which promptly began moving inland, covered by bombers, across the smuggling country. Soon they threatened Wai-chow, an important smuggling station, and no strong Chinese opposition arrived...
...ancient rival, the University of North Carolina, 0-to-0. In 1932 Duke for the first time since 1920 defeated North Carolina (7-to-0). When a controversy over boxing between Virginia and Tulane precipitated the long impending split in the Southern Conference the following year. Duke wai the strongest team in the new Southern Conference and Alabama, coached by Notre Dame's Frank Thomas, topped the new Southeastern Conference...
...world knows the Greenland Wai took off from the North Sea Island of Sylt, site of Capt. von Gronau's seaplane school, traversed without incident the northern passage via Iceland and Greenland to Montreal. Thenceforth she made her easy way across part of the U. S., pausing at Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee. North of Winnipeg the Whale rested on Cormorant Lake while her crew-rested, fished. Thence on to British Columbia, Dutch Harbor, Alaska, and along the stepping stones of the Aleutian Islands and Kuriles to Tokyo...
...Greenland Wai encountered no serious trouble until crossing the Bay of Bengal. About 150 mi. off Rangoon a water pump broke. Down came the plane upon a tossing sea. An S O S brought a British steamer which towed her into Rangoon. As casually as before, the plane flew on to Colombo, Bombay, Bagdad. Athens, Rome, across the Alps in a storm to Friedrichshafen...