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Paar has been kicking this kind of humor around show business for eleven years. Born in Canton, Ohio, he began training early. "I was a sensitive boy," he says grandly. "Moody. A mad, mad thing even then." He landed his first job at 18 announcing in Indianapolis. He "loved" radio, he says, but the station did not love him. He lost half a dozen jobs because he could not make the broadcast on time ("Hell, I was at my typewriter creating...
...wealthy merchant's son, Malraux in his youth went off on an archeological mission to Indo-China. There, he discovered his sympathy for the underdog, helped the colonial rebels against French imperialism. Later, as a member of the Canton Committee of Twelve, he helped the Kuomintang and Communists revolt. All along, he had a romantic streak and a deep concern for the individual, which foreshadowed his later stand against Communism's robot ranks...
Other undergraduate speakers at the annual Class Day Literary Exercises included Peter W. Fay '45, of Cambridge, who delivered the traditionally humorous Ivy Oration--using the University's automatic calculator as his subject; and Herbert MacArthur '45 of Canton, who read his Class Poem...
...John William Powell, 27, took over the title of editor & publisher of the China Weekly Review. He had been running the paper since the end of the war. Shanghai-born Bill Powell worked with 0WI during the war, tossing leaflets out of Army bombers over occupied Hong Kong and Canton. When he got back to the Review he found most of its fine library stolen, the wiring and switches ripped from the walls...
...money from the Philippines and Southeast Asia to rehabilitate the coastal trade, and on the Chinese New Year nearly every Amoy citizen boasted the traditional (but in recent years unobtainable) new suit or dress. Inland, such cities as Hengyang and Changsha, once 98% destroyed, are 30% rebuilt. Pot-holed Canton streets are being repaired, and are expected to be shipshape in three months...