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Despite the axe of wartime necessity which hangs over the head of intercollegiate sports, basketball coach Earl Brown will, in a few days, approach the H.A.A. with the proposal that Harvard ho the first Eastern university to experiment with the "crow's nest" system of officiating, a much discussed innovation from out of the West...
Then the heavy program began. Willkie was driven through Chungking's crowded, cheering streets. He visited a meeting of the Chinese Cabinet, which was tussling with the inflation problem. He talked with China's Chief of Staff General Ho Ying-chin. He talked with the Gissimo through the fluently translating Missimo. At President Lin Sen's mansion Willkie sampled a succulent Chinese-French cuisine including poisson du Yangtze au bain Marie and champignons du Fukien á la volaille. Willkie tried chopsticks, but quickly fell back on knife & fork...
...live, the boojums had had the run of the place and were annoyed at being ousted. They used to steal or break anything new we put in the house, pour water in the new paint cans for painting the house, snatch the hub caps off the cars of anyone ^ho tried to visit us, and generally made lift miserable...
Veteran, bespectacled General Ho Kuo-kwang, commander of China's air defenses, breathed these thankful words last week at a banquet in Chungking. All day there had been mass meetings, speeches, athletic contests. Forty-eight boys & girls, the youngest only seven, had leaped bravely from a parachute tower. Winner of the contest was nine-year-old Sung Kuo-shua. The celebration was of Chinese Air Force Day-and the blossoming of new hope in China's old, war-weary land...
From Chungking went an appeal to President Roosevelt for more planes. Said the commander of the First Route Air Force: China must also make its own machines, produce its own fuel, train its own personnel. Said veteran General Ho, winding things up: "This day next year we want to turn on the radio and hear that the Chinese Air Force bombed Tokyo in the morning, the U.S. Army Air Forces bombed Tokyo at noon, and the R.A.F. completed the day's job in the evening...