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...Chinatown Tong feuds and peace-conferences. Like many a newsgatherer, he often has been pressed into service as an emergency fireman, surgeon, bodyguard. He is married, has had one daughter, who died...
...learn U. S. business and banking methods. Few succeeded at all; those who did usually compromised about dress or family customs, or between the gods. One such was Lee Fook, longtime foreign-exchange official in the National City Bank, financial adviser to New York's Chinatown. He wore horn-rimmed spectacles, occidental dress, handled and ex changed Chinatown dollars sent back to relatives in China. But not until six years ago did he adopt Christianity, to please his second wife. Last week he died, was buried. His funeral service was read by a Protestant minister, but according to Chinese...
Throughout the U. S. the Hip Sings and On Leongs shot and hatcheted each other in 1917, again in 1924. During the past few months similar Chinatown killings have happened sporadically in New York, Newark, N. J., Chicago. U. S. newsreaders who thought "Tong wars" carry-overs from the days of native pomp, crime, and paganism were mistaken. Tongs are not, never were, ancient Oriental groupings for feuds. They are, instead, practical busi ness protective associations formed in the U. S. after the Civil War to keep Chinese laundrymen, restaurateurs, merchants, servants, etc. from molestation by competitors or the authorities...
...time to keeping peace among the Tongs. Signer of the pact for the Hip Sing Tong was its President, Author Eng Ying ("Eddie") Gong (TIME, June 2). When the six leaders had signed it, scribes translated the document into brushstrokes on cerise paper, sent it to every U. S. Chinatown, proclaiming Consul Tow and Commissioner Mulrooney overlords of all U. S. Chinese...
...York graphologist, and her collection and studies of scribbles? Nationally and internationally known people, big business organizations, detectives, lawyers, unhappy couples, misfits, underworld characters-all take odd drawings and bits of scratchings to her. She's done farming, showboating on the Mississippi, reporting in the Bowery and Chinatown 35 years ago before modern artificial atmosphere, worked behind "Five and Ten" counters-now writes and graphologizes. You scribble. It's unconscious. Rounded lines indicate a gentle, tactful person; angularity tells of shrewdness. Flowers and leaves show a friendly, unassertive person. A head profile comes from the salesman type. Mussy...