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...campaign to conquer northern China. In this war there was by normal Chinese standards some fairly heavy fighting. Most fortunate for the Generalissimo, however, was the assassination at Mukden of the doughtiest fighter among China's War Lords, the great Marshal Chang Tso-lin, famed bibber of tiger's blood and keeper of a harem of white women...
...Princeton Triangle Club is primarily a social institution whose largest purpose is to give the more talented members of Cottage Club, Cap and Gown and Tiger Inn a 3,000-mile booze bust around the country at Christmastime. Not all Triangle show boys are out exclusively for a good time, however, and it is this type which goes out into the cold world and becomes actors, singers and directors like James Stuart, Joshua Logan, Ned Wever, Frank Chapman, Phillips Holmes, Myron McCormick, Bretaigne Windust, Jose Ferrer. These have created in the Triangle Club a small but sound tradition of showmanship...
...Lama's soul may, on the appointed day, enter the body of an infant about to be born. The mother may identify her holy offspring by other portents & miracles and by seven signs which include a full set of teeth in the babe, a birthmark resembling a tiger's stripes, an ability to utter the name of Buddha. But for the incarnation there are many claimants. These are weeded to three, whose names are placed in a golden vase from which, in the presence of an assembly of priests and nobles, the proper one is drawn...
TIME'S timely description of the Sky Tiger by Bell out of Buffalo goes haywire in its second paragraph (TiME, Nov. 15, Transport). The printer's the fall guy (we hope) when he says "two .50 calibre (1½ in.) guns." Calibre is the diameter of the bore between the lands. A ".50 calibre gun" is a ½ in. gun. Incidentally the service says "calibre...
According to Ambassador Kurusu, even a second rebuff should not discourage the Conference from inviting Japan a third time. "When first the warning cry 'Tiger! Tiger!' is heard in an Indian village nobody pays any attention," explained the Ambassador. "The second time perhaps a few natives reach for their swords. But it is the third cry of 'Tiger! Tiger!' which arouses the village...