Word: americans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Morbid Watchers. Late one night, while most of Shanghai slept, the lights burned brightly in the offices of the American-owned Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury, whose difficulties with the Communists (TIME, July 4) had occupied the center of Shanghai's stage almost since the first days of the takeover. Inside, sleepless Editor Randall Gould and an assistant listened wearily while a delegation of workers beat out an ear-splitting cacophony with a band made up of pans, buckets and empty kerosene tins...
When he heard of the latest lock-in, one American who had spent a lifetime in China threw up his hands. "Believe me, I'm not hysterical," he insisted nervously, "I just want to go home...
...American buyers last week thronged thirstily around the bars at the Ritz and Crillon, gossiped knowingly of new, narrowed skirts, shorter day dresses and a new emphasis on black, green and yellow. Then, five days before the show, 12,000 of Paris' 20,000 midinettes* laid down their needles and flounced out on what was probably France's most popular strike of the year...
Margaret Truman laid aside her pitch pipes and throat sprays to spend a "restful weekend" in Newport, R.I. with Madame Minister Perle Mesta, attended an American Legion carnival and rode the Ferris wheel with her hostess...
Coar charges Congressmen $3.50 per recording. He has built up an impressive list of regular customers. Washington's Senator Harry Cain (who once pepped up some of his records with American folk songs from the Library of Congress) sends out 38 copies of his weekly platter. Pennsylvania's Ed Martin uses 74 every two weeks. Ohio's Robert Taft is good for 39 a week...