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...TIME for Jan. 19 you wrote concerning the trip of the Pacific Clipper from New Zealand, "Captain Ford, not knowing the radio frequency for sending, could not break into this interesting conversation" (between Dutch fighter plane and ground station...
After he reached Honolulu, U Saw had reason to know the Japanese devils better than ever. He had barely left his Clipper, when Japanese dive-bombers screeched down on Pearl Harbor. It may have been the hell of that Sunday morning that tipped the scales in Japan's favor...
...returned to the U.S., left for Lisbon by Clipper the day before Christmas. There he may have made contact with the Japanese, and from there he was reported to have flown to Cairo. It was probably there that the British cooped...
...because he knows that some day he is going to own a share in the firm and marry old Mr. Chevalier's niece. Before he succeeds, readers have been given a lively picture of U.S. business and municipal mores at their most ruggedly individualistic-against a backdrop of clipper ships, teeming wharves, swells, belles, fire fighting, and the Five Points gang wars...
Later, when the 46-man U.S. delegation headed by Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles arrived in the middle of a heat wave, Aranha was ready and waiting. Three times the 42-ton Clipper circled the lavender hills around Rio's bay. At the airport 2,000 Brazilians cheered themselves hoarse, knocked down one lone man who started to boo, trampled over gaily uniformed grenadier guards. Before leaving Washington the supposedly icy Mr. Welles had kissed his wife good-by with the tenderness of a lad going off to the wars. Now the Rio welcome must have touched...