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After 25 years there were striking changes in the people of Shanghai. In the old days, it was hard for a foreigner to walk along the Bund-the wide promenade along the Whangpoo, which has been renamed Chung Shan Road -without a procession of beggars, cripples and the just plain curious following behind. Walking to work in the old days, I had developed my own special clientele of beggars who got paid off each day, and who in return fended off the other beggars. Now the beggars and cripples were gone, but the ranks of the curious had grown...
...Toll Bridge. One day I decided to repeat my old walk to work from the Broadway Mansions, renamed Shanghai Mansions, to my former office on the Bund. An unsmiling crowd of 200 or 300 fell in behind. We trekked over the Garden Bridge, now the "No-Toll Bridge." The Soochow Creek below smelled as bad as ever and was jammed with the same sampans that have been used to unload freighters ever since Shanghai was opened to foreign shipping in 1842 after the Opium...
...talked about The Damned, perhaps the only other major film this year to have a strong homosexual point of view. Crowley said he thought that film was "fabulous and terrible... Jack Lemmon calls it The Boys in the Bund...
...Green Bay dogs had their day every Sunday. Under Lombardi's iron rule, they terrorized the National Football League for eight years. No more, for this year Mr. Lombardi, as he is known to his players, went to Washington to apply his whip to the mor-bund Redskins...
Twenty-three Radcliffe seniors were induced in to Phi Bota Kappa Yesterday. The new members include: Elizabeth C. Brody of Los Angeles, Calif. (English); Barbara E. Bund of Roslyn, N.Y. (Applied Mathematics); Susan Contralto of Brookline, (Social Relations); Carola M. Dibbell of New York City (English...