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Three flyers climbed stiffly down from a C-47 transport at Chungking's Seven Dragon Slope airdrome. They were thin, and their faces were old and unsmiling. To fresh young U.S. flyers on the field, they seemed like apparitions from another war, another age. They had only now ended a flight begun from the deck of the aircraft carrier Hornet three years, four months and one week before. They were some of Jimmy Doolittle's men who had bombed Japan...
...characters-just plain men, women & children. Massive males stagger under the weight of a heavy fountain-bowl; chubby children sport in & out of stone tree branches. A bridge over a pool bears 58 bronze figures of rugged toilers. At one corner of the bridge is a 20-ft. dragon clutching a reluctant woman whose bowed face, closely examined, reveals smiling pleasure. Topping the park is a 56-ft. white granite monolith, stone for which was inched through Oslo, halting all traffic, at the rate of a yard a day for one year. Carved upon it now is a writhing mass...
...Szechwan Province (biggest city: Chungking), drought threatened the crops. Seven Chungking patriots organized a "Praying-for-the-Rain Dragon Corps." They paraded in time-honored rainmaking costume: short trousers, bare chests, bands of green grass around their heads. They shouted and beat gongs...
Beside the smashed dragon's teeth of the Westwall at Aachen it is hard to find even a rusting fender. In the green fields of Bavaria, where the fighting ended only a few weeks ago, few signs of fighting are left. All of the smashed and pulverized equipment along the long road from Nor mandy to the Elbe is gone. For the reconstruction of war's broken materiel is already well under...
...usually called spindly-legged little John Espey "Toothpicks" or "Droopy Drawers." But to the Chinese servants he was "the only son of an only son, first cousin to the President of the U.S. ... a nephew of the King of England, and [owner of] the tongue of a five-clawed dragon." Twenty American gunboats lay on the Whangpoo, simply waiting for him to whistle them up to shell his enemies to bits. He was familiar with the tomb of General Grant, and hailed from Pittsburgh - a spot that in piety ranked second only to 156 Fifth Avenue (Presbyterian Headquarters...