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...during the U.S. Revolutionary War, a British soldier named Duncan McColl was sent on a mission that took him in plain view of sharpshooting Yan kees. Their musket balls shredded his clothing, tore off his cap and the heel of one shoe. At last their officer, awed by the sight, gave the order to cease firing...
...Rangoon is a corruption of Yan Kon; it was so named by a conquering Burmese king...
...mother of a 7-lb. girl. The child's name was undisclosed. "I think Eunice wants to name it after my nephew's boy," Charlie told a visiting reporter and photographer. Asked what the boy's name was, Charlie said: "I can't recollect." "See yan branch," he said, pointing with his squirrel rifle, "well, that's the dividing line. No photographers can cross it." The newsmen went away...
...From the Burmese Yan-Kon, meaning...
...author of the dialogue-which contains a discussion of Great Britain's defensive policy against aggressor nations-was Sir Robert Yan-sittart, Chief Diplomatic Adviser to the Foreign Office. *After attending a San Diego preview of Submarine Patrol, Actor Greene last fortnight set off with his valet on a hunting trip in the Kaibab National Forest. When he failed to telephone his mother as he had promised, forest rangers, rail-road agents, and 100 CCC workers, started a search for Actor Greene. Twenty-four hours later, he was discovered at Williams, Ariz...