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...Tiger's Tooth. Kehoe has become uneasily fond of the Nagas, but grins if anyone refers to their head-hunting as an old, forgotten custom. He has attended two head-hunting trials (involving the harvesting of 13 heads) in the border area where British law still reaches. Witnesses took oath by biting on a tiger's tooth (to prove they were stronger than tigers). The courts, baffled by native blandness, could do nothing but levy a general fine of 1,000 rupees each on the villages involved...
Home from China to confer with their Commander in Chief were Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell and Major General Claire L. Chennault. Straightway, the shrewdest Flying Tiger of them all got the General William L. Mitchell Air Trophy to show to his wife and eight kids (one serving on land, two at sea, three in the air). To "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell came a bid from his Peking-born daughter, Alison, 22, to her New York show of ink paintings in the Chinese style...
...week President Roosevelt's envoy to India, William Phillips, announced that he had asked British permission to see India's imprisoned Mohandas K. Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, and that the permission had been refused. India's Viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow, took Phillips on a tiger hunt instead. Commented London politicos: "Phillips would indeed be an optimist if he thought he could converse with Gandhi and Nehru...
...barrel-chested Junior from New Brunswick, won the low board diving, but finished second from the higher board on Saturday night to Princeton's Connie Doran. Breast stroker Chuck Gantner, who butterflies all the way, was the main cog in the Scarlet's medley relay victory, and he edged Tiger Norm Zheutlin in the 200-yard breast stroke...
...Tiger Norm Zheutlin should cop the 200-yard breast stroke, with Charlie Gantner of Rutgers very much in the race. The 440 should see another Rogers-Glynn-Barnes-Christman tussle, while the high board diving event figures to be pretty much a repeat performance of the low board. Final event of the card, the 400-yard relay, sees a host of good quartets, not the least of whom is Amherst, champion in the New England Intercollegiates a week...