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Between Manchukuo and Outer Mongolia (Russian sphere of influence) lies the vast Inner Mongolian plateau, a flat wilderness of grass ruled by hairy, fur-clad Mongol princes under the nominal overlordship of China's Nanking Government. Last month from every corner of Chahar and Suiyuan Provinces the princes of Mongolia left their herds of horses, camels and sheep to ride toward the great Lama Temple at Bathahalak, 100 mi. north of Kweihwa. In a little valley they found it, an exquisite cluster of white Manchu buildings, gold-crested pinnacles, infested by bearded monks. They set up their fur yurts...
...summer of 1822 Fort Mackinac, Michigan Army and fur-trading post, was a rough, brawling, drunken community of about 5,000 Indians, French-Canadians and half-breeds spending the proceeds of their winter fur catches. Only doctor within a 300-mi. radius was William Beaumont, an Army surgeon who meticulously recorded in a diary every medical tittle and jot he performed. For June 6, 1822, the entry, now a precious incunabulum in the history of U. S. Medicine, reads...
...going on within the stomach. This inquisitiveness made him think of starting a research within the processes of digestion, concerning which knowledge was hypothetical. Alexis St. Martin grew impatient with the experiments, ran away to his Canadian home, married, and fathered two children before Beaumont could find him, through fur trappers...
...radical innovation in uniform, we are told is not to be in effect for the games. Shorts may go over for tennis but there are those who demand no less than a fur coat for the late fall games...
Last week Pan American's long-legged technical adviser, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, jaunting across the North Atlantic with his Wife Anne to survey a transoceanic route for Pan American, arrived in Copenhagen in an Eskimo fur coat. When cheering Danes nearly swamped his red-bodied, white-winged Lockheed in Copenhagen harbor, he took off again, came down in the sanctity of the naval airport...