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...great China (pronounced Chee-nah) model fashion's new couture-inspired designs that you can sew yourself," cried the six-column newspaper ad for Macy's 1961 Spring Fabric Fashion Show. "Whether or not," continued the pitch, "you're an aficionado who adores China's rhythmical stroll along fashion's illustrious runways, you must come see her . . ." What made the invitation ir resistible was the accompanying portrait of "the great China," a model of ex quisitely earthy elegance - who makes her own clothes. Born in Shanghai of a Portuguese father and a Siamese mother, China...
...This, Doctor," said Chee-Chee, "is the Pushmi-Pullyu-the rarest animal of the African jungles, the only two-headed beast in the world...
Three of Bhowani Junction'?, main characters take turns at telling the story, which hangs on the problems of a group Americans know little about. In India, there are many names for them-Anglo-Indians, Eurasians, half-castes, chee-chees, blacky-whites, eight-annas.* Victoria Jones, an eight-anna girl, is "the color of dark ivory." She is a lush beauty with come-hither eyes and a figure that would make an hourglass seem angular. But in 1946. with the British on their way out of India, Victoria's problem is acute. ("We couldn't become English, because...
Liberace (pronounced Liber-ah-chee) is a piano player who dropped his given names because "Paderewski did not achieve worldwide fame until after he dropped his."* The trick took: at 33, Milwaukee-born Wladziu Valentino Liberace cannot give enough concerts to please all his fans, many of whom probably never heard of Paderewski. He has sold a phenomenal 250,000 albums of his records, appears on 100 TV stations (more than I Love Lucy), and by the testimony of his sponsors (mostly banks and biscuit companies) has directly accounted for "several million dollars worth of business...
...Navajo beet worker, Kee Chee, did not do as he was told . . . He was told both by myself, the superintendent of the hospital, and the representative of the Amalgamated Sugar Co. which employed him, to leave the infant in the hospital. Moreover, Amalgamated and Minidoka County were paying and were willing to go on paying the infant's medical expenses. Notwithstanding this, Kee Chee and his wife insisted on taking the baby out of the hospital, and on their own responsibility, left with it on the chartered bus for their home in New Mexico . . . The Chees' reason...