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Under General Liu Po-cheng ("The One-Eyed Dragon"), boss of Southwest China, the campaign was begun a year ago with drilling of troops in mountain warfare and of party commissars in the Tibetan tongue and customs. On Oct. 7 the advance got under way. Each soldier carried 100 lbs. of arms and rice. Other supplies were loaded on truck and yak caravans. Pontoon bridges were laid across treacherously rapid rivers...
Cluttered Attic. A late riser, Frost eats a breakfast of watered milk and a raw egg flavored with lemon. Afternoons, he walks the hills or potters around the farm (he is helping his tenant farmer, Stafford Dragon, build an extra room on the main house). Last week he was spending his evenings reading Catullus (in Latin), dipping into travel books ("they keep your imagination kind of stretched wide") or writing in his slow longhand. Frost writes nearly all his poems straight through at a sitting. "A poem can't be worried into existence," he says...
Night at Charlie's. One evening, a fortnight ago, the Grand Dragon of the South Carolina Klan, a Leesville (S.C.) grocer named Thomas L. Hamilton, assembled a mob of his men on a road near Myrtle Beach. With an electrically lighted cross shining on the lead car, 26 automobile loads of Kluxers rolled through the Negro section of town. Most of the colored population was terrified, but one bold Negro telephoned the police that there would be bloodshed if the Klan came back...
...announced that Charlie had been arrested and was being held in some undisclosed place, but cleared him of any blame for the shooting. Then he arrested Grand Dragon Hamilton, charged him with inciting a riot, and confiscated his robe and a 16-ft. bull whip...
...born in 1903 in the mountains of Central China, grew up in Peking, where his peasant-born father was director of military training for the Imperial Chinese army. In Peking's yellow-roofed Forbidden City, Dowager Empress Tzu-hsi (also known as the "Venerable Buddha") still occupied the Dragon Throne, and China still lay in the heavy torpor of her past. While Wu was in school, Sun Yat-sen and his followers rudely yanked at the queue of Chinese tradition, dethroned the Manchus and established the Chinese Republic...