Word: chan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CHARLIE CHAN IN HONOLULU. This is a wonderful picture for those who like honest detective stories, where all the clews are given and where careful observation will get your man. Only there is one thing to remember; there is more than one suspect. This point is made clear in the movie but remember it just the same...
First issue of the Tribune, subtitled "The People's Paper," ran to 32 pages. Next day it settled down to 16 pages, one afternoon appeared with a scant ten. Inside were plenty of robust comics (Superman, Charlie Chan. Tarzan), such columnists as Eleanor Roosevelt. Raymond Clapper, Hugh Johnson...
...Chinese heroes whose exploits long ago became legend was General Ma Chan-shan ("Giant Horse"). General Ma was no giant (5 ft. 8 in.), but he was an expert horseman. Thin, nervous, explosive, scratching his chin or mustache as he talked, General Ma smoked a little opium for pleasant dreams, woke from them fresh for action at 5:30 every morn ing. Operating in the far north, he organized a fantastic-appearing but formidable cavalry force made up mostly of Mongols and Manchurians, whose feet almost dragged on the ground astride their tiny Mongolian ponies. They wore badges on their...