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...Rockaway, Long Island one summer day 19 years ago, a tipsy slattern wove into the chop suey restaurant of Fung Kwok-dong, plunked down on a table a naked boy infant, offered to sell him for $1. Fung Kwok-dong impassively handed over a dollar bill. Two years later when the mother tried to get her son back Fung Kwok-dong went to court, won legal possession. The white babe was legally adopted and given the name Fung Kwok-keung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Fung Kwok-dong's Foundling | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...born, revisited his ancestral village of Keu Kong near Canton. With him went the adopted white child to be reared in China by Fung's wife, Tan See. Eight years ago Fung's savings ran out, so he returned to the U. S. and the chop suey business. But his white son remained in China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Fung Kwok-dong's Foundling | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...skill and experience. Backed by many interested professionals and public-spirited citizens, and by the New York State Nurses Association, the Todd campaign got under way to a fanfare of agitation about "bootleg nurses." As horrible examples, the campaign literature cited: 1) a nurse who tried to feed a chop, two vegetables and a piece of pie to a child with a temperature of 104.5°; 2) a nurse who gave baths, accompanied by vigorous twisting and mauling, to a man with a fractured skull; 3) a nurse who thought that three one-quarter grain tablets of morphine made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bootleg Nurses | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

Merry-Go-Round of 1938 (Universal). If it had no other virtues to speak of, this skedaddling musicomedy would be worth mentioning for one fact alone: it brings to a wider audience Comic Bert Lahr's theory that only a barytone can chop a tree. It has other virtues as well: Jimmy Savo, exquisite pantomimist whose film career was nearly blighted two years ago by a luckless appearance in Ben Hecht's & Charles MacArthur's haphazard Once in a Blue Moon; Billy House, fleshy Mr. Bones of old-time minstrelsy; addlepated Comedienne Alice Brady; Mischa Auer, well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 29, 1937 | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...Country and My People Lin Yutang offered a shrewd and engaging interpretation of modern China which U. S. readers liked almost as well as chop suey. Passing suggestions in that book hinted that what the U. S. needs, in order to quiet its nerves, is a good shot of Chinese philosophy. In The Importance of Living Author Yutang sets down what he thinks are the most useful ingredients for a Chi-nese-American way of life. Banning Buddhism because "it is too sad," he likes the Taoist-Confucianist view better, but cheerfully admits that he has taken many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: R3D2H3S2 | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

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