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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Encouraged by jovial U.S. Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley, the Communists' ace negotiator, smart, suave General Chou Enlai, had flown down from Yenan for one more try after almost a year of bootless words over issues as broad as China itself. For two weeks he had talked long and earnestly with Chungking's ace negotiator, scholarly, liberal Information Minister Wang Shih-chieh...
Married. Commander David McCampbell, 35, No. 1 Navy ace (34 Jap planes, nine in one day), recently awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor; and Sara-Jane Heliker Kahn, 33, ex-daughter-in-law of the late Financier Otto H. Kahn; both for the second time; at Anacostia...
...Play showed three main differences from bridge: 1) South, claiming the contract at 500, declared spades trump (in Check, the trump is not announced until the contract is claimed); 2) South, leading the Spade ace won East's singleton Spade ace (in Check, the first ace wins the second; the first king, the second king, etc.), 3) honor cards taken in tricks counted in point score (in Check, aces and tens count ten, kings and queens, 5.; jacks, no count...
Married. Major Richard Ira Bong, 24, snub-nosed U.S. ace of aces (40 Jap planes); and Marjorie Ann Vattendahl, 21, teachers college graduate whose blown-up photograph glamorized his P-38; in Superior, Wis. Nine A.A.F. officers proxied for one absent wedding guest: ailing five-star General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold...
...life in a Jap internment camp, and of what happens to the characters of once easygoing civilians penned up in it. It is set in Manila's Santo Tomas camp, where almost 4,000 prisoners were freed by U.S. troops last fortnight. Author Mydans and her husband Carl, ace LIFE photographer, were imprisoned there for eight and a half months...