Word: ai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Josephine Baker (Columbia; 2 sides LP). A cross section of the French songs that made the daughter of a St. Louis washerwoman the toast of Paris, including J'ai Deux Amours, C'est Lui, La, Petite Tonkinoise...
...warnings to the pampered patriots. Peking's People's Daily chided Labor Hero Wang Chung-hao, a Manchurian, who "became so arrogant and lazy, following his being named a labor hero, that his team subsequently turned in a very miserable result." Equally guilty was Shen Chao-ai, who got so involved with meetings, discussions, and visits from admirers that he stayed away from work for 90 days last year and had to be fined 2.7 piculs (360 lbs.) of cereals for backsliding. Complained the People's Daily: "Some of these heroes become self-centered and self-satisfied...
...First Class. At Canton a welcoming delegation met us with various Red banners saying "Welcome Home" etc. (As soon as we entered China, we didn't have to carry anything because various cadres carried it all for us.) Several times especially prepared with welcoming banners then took us to Ai Chun Hotel, one of the two best hotels in Canton. There was a feast prepared for us, but because I was already late, there were no speeches or activities that night. We visited a large celebration several days after of the first anniversary of Canton's liberation, in which...
North Korea's Mrs. PAK DEN-AI, seasoned underground operator against the Japanese, president of her country's Communist Women's League, speechmaker at Asiatic congresses vilifying...
When it came to hurling a sleek, eight-engined bomber halfway around the world, nobody could beat the Ai,r Force. Knocking out a couple of machine-gun nests on a scrubby Korean hillside was something else again...