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...York City's tabloid Daily News continued to argue that Manhattan, definitely out of the running, was ideal because it could make any delegate feel at home-the Chinese would be happy living in Chinatown, the French in Greenwich Village, the British at the Waldorf. "If [the delegates] . . . were cooped up in some sort of compound at Hyde Park, it would be like a lot of laundresses taking in one another's washing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Buyer's Market | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

...gull's-eye view of San Francisco's war-crowded harbor (see cut). To get a proper perch to paint it from, Dong pitched a pup tent dizzily atop the Bay Bridge. It was a long way up from the narrow obscurity of San Francisco's Chinatown, where he began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dashing Realist | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

Sixty-two hours after the first Jap offer the vigil, still continued. Then came the U.P.'s false report of final Jap surrender, and in the two minutes before it was denied a carnival din began. Firecrackers popped in Manhattan's Chinatown; searchlights swept the skies over Miami. Bonfires blazed in Pittsburgh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Interrupt This Program | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

...hours in an Army transport with Fellow Delegate Virginia Gildersleeve, Delegation Adviser John Foster Dulles, the State Department's Hamilton Fish Armstrong. His wife went by train. In San Francisco they have a two-room suite at the Fairmont Hotel, from which, over the rooftops of Chinatown, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: To the World | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

...hand and soldier of fortune; and Judith Clark, 40, proprietress of Montreal's Judith Clark dress shop; she for the second time, he for the first; in Montreal. A British-born onetime clothes peddler, he met China's late great Sun Yat-sen in Vancouver's Chinatown, became his personal bodyguard, later led Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese regulars and served in Europe as a secret agent for the Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 3, 1944 | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

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