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Word: rickshaw (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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Early this year the Japanese attempted to give Alcott a physical tossing around. Jap terrorists tried to drag him out of a rickshaw in the American Defense Zone of the International Settlement, but he escaped through an alley. Since then he has used a Packard with bulletproof glass, toted a gun. Busy as a bird dog, Alcott serves as cable editor of the China Press between broadcasts, improvises his scripts from news flashes that come over his desk. Married recently to a White Russian he met in the Settlement, Alcott is thinking of settling down. If the Japs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Newscaster of Shanghai | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

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