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Still, the professor was no pedant. A China-born Southerner, he was the son of a Methodist missionary and the grandson of Nathan B. Forrest's chief of staff; he came to Dartmouth in 1913 after teaching in Brazil and ranching in California. For three decades, Lambuth asked only that students think hard and write straight, looking to such models as Belloc, Conrad, Chesterton and the English Bible. "Clear thinking and not a mastery of rules and a memory full of difficulties is what makes good writing," Lambuth summed up. "If you have a nail...
While considering the project, Carnegie officials naturally turned to Henry Fenn for advice on testing and curriculum. Fenn responded with the enthusiasm of a man who has fought for years to introduce "remote languages" (e.g., Chinese, Arabic, Swahili) into high schools. The China-born son of American missionaries, Fenn has spent 40 years teaching in the U.S. and China. During World War II Yale drafted him to help establish its "blitz" language program, which crammed U.S. soldiers with conversational Chinese in four months. Many of the high schools that have introduced Chinese have done so under Fenn's prodding...
Married. Audrey Meadows, 36, China-born comedienne who was Sid Caesar's fourth TV wife; and Robert F. Six, 54, bustling president of Continental Airlines; she for the second time, he for the third (previous incumbent: Ethel Merman); in Honolulu...
Died. Robert Ezra McCann, 60, China-born auto dealer who spent ten years in Chinese Communist prisons on trumped-up espionage charges, was released last month after his wife Flora learned he was dying and rushed to Tientsin to plead for his freedom; of cancer; at Clark Air Force Base, Philippine Islands...
Business & Pleasure. The China-born Shaw Brothers have only one thing in common: a desire to make movies and money. Run Me Shaw, short and stubby, handles finances, avoids the limelight. Run Run Shaw, tall and thin, is a mixture of Barnum & Bailey and Todd-AO. He willfully holds conferences at 2 a.m., buys and sells talent like cattle. He is the master of the Asian hard sell. When The Brothers Karamazov, starring bald Yul Brynner, played the Shaw circuit, Run Run organized a head-shaving contest with a prize for the shiniest pate, started a teen-age craze...