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...years in the Orient, Clarence Gauss never bothered to learn Chinese (at longest a four-year stint...
...Then the vast bulk of shipments was to the British Isles, and transports averaged 6,500 miles the round voyage. Now the average is much higher; transports to Australia cover an average 14,000 miles on the round voyage; to the Persian Gulf (longest haul...
...trial for treason in South Africa (TIME, Dec. 28), Sydney Leibbrandt turned out to be a German agent, who arrived in a U-boat to organize sabotage and rebellion against Field Marshal Smuts's Government. Last week in Pretoria, at the end of the Union's longest treason trial, the judge asked sneer-faced Sydney if he wished to say anything. Up whipped Sydney's arm in a Nazi salute. Out whipped the words, in harsh Afrikaans: "Long live Adolf Hitler, long live National Socialist South Africa. I expected to die if I came back...
Allport, himself, was in a war class that was hard-hit by the war. It was his personal observation that the men who both saw the toughest fighting and who were away the longest had the least desire to return while almost all of the one-year men were back in College after the Armistice...
Pete Brown and Frankie Newton were the heroes of the day, Brown working the hardest and longest, and playing better than ever before, Newton saving the concert at an awkward moment with superb showmanship. The finest music in the session came when they jammed together with three former members of Frankie's band, the Trottman brothers on piano and bass, and Billy Mason on drums. The outfit blended perfectly and the ensembles were terrific...