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...campaigns he frankly conquered by bribery, advertising what he would pay to Chinese enemy commanders who deserted to his side. Last week, however, though General Ho apparently yielded to all Japan's demands in the name of his Government, there was no confirmation from Nanking or wily, wasp-waisted little Chinese Dictator Chiang Kaishek. The entire Chinese Government kept...
...dawn the world's No. 1 airwoman climbed into her Lockheed Vega, warmed the big Wasp engine while soldiers herded horses, cows, goats, Mexicans out of the way. Then she taxied into a biting wind, lifted her three-ton ship off the ground after a perilous run of nearly two miles...
Every Dictator bedevils his people with improvements and in Nanking shrill, wasp-waisted Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has been bedeviling Chinese schoolgirls into skirts. Last week skirted schoolgirls humbly petitioned: "At least in cold weather we beg permission to wear the warm trousers to which we were accustomed. Our new garments have resulted in cold legs...
...CAST Bill, a Harvard man of the right sort George Whitney '37 "Stopper" Carter, a friend of his Charles Bellows '37 Charlotte Peter Jopling '35 Dean Bounce William M. Hunt, II '36 Fish, a Harvard man Arthur M. Jones, Jr. '35 Wasp Anderson Page '37 Jake F. Sewall Gardner '37 Dean Surley Robert Grinnell '36 Mrs. Murphy, a goody, one of the best Lawrence, Nichols '35 Mrs. O'Shaughnessey, her crony Gaspar G. Bacon, Jr. '37 Mrs. Bounce, nee Wholeworthy Walter Birge '35 Mary Bounce, her daughter Francis E. Johnson '35 Faunce, a Butler Henry Lyman '37 Mrs. Elwell Myron...
...engineering achievement. So big that a pit had to be dug in the factory to accommodate its hull, the ship was also too big to be assembled in the company's hangar which is large enough to hold several Douglas transports. XP3D-1 has two 830-h.p. Twin Wasp motors, 100-ft. wingspread, carries eight men, six machine guns, two tons of bombs. Although not armored. XP3D-1 tickled Navy officials, impressed them especially by carrying a 2,000-lb. payload on one engine...