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Frustrated Gulls. The mess is a pleasant spot,-with plastic-topped tables for four men, russet leather and aluminum chairs and a 21-inch TV set. Near the chow line is a "gedunk" soda fountain. The gleaming galley has most of the comforts of modern living, including an electric mixer, a potato peeler, a dishwasher, and a garbage grinder that should frustrate gulls and porpoises. Elsewhere on the ship are a 15-lb. washing machine and a steam dryer and presser...
...fancy chuck wagon parked near Palm Springs, Calif., rugged Cinemactor Clark (Mogambo) Gable and his old-time playmate, sometime Actress Kay Williams Spreckels, fifth ex-wife of Sugar (Honey Dew) Daddy Adolph Spreckels II, lined up for morning chow. With other early risers of the Desert Riders, oldest galloping group in those parts, they had just taken a constitutional in the saddle as dawn peeped over the oasis...
...Chow with Chou. Chou En-lai gave a cocktail party which Peking radio described as "proceeding in a friendly atmosphere." Later that night, he and tired Dag Hammarskjold dined in private. Talks began next morning in the ornate Hsi Hwa (West Splendor) hall of Peking's Forbidden City. Hammarskjold and Chou, flanked by their advisers, sat on a damask sofa, interspersing their legal arguments with sips of jasmine-scented tea, served in eggshell porcelain cups...
...Communists and go off to school in Red China. The Communists offer them everything from free books to free clothes. "And so," says Lin, "parents never see their children again. It is very sad." Last year, under the leadership of Rubber Tycoon Tan Lark-sye and Lien Ying-chow, managing director of Singapore's Overseas Union Bank, the city's merchants and businessmen began raising money for a new university, decided on Lin Yutang as chancellor because of his international prestige. By last week, Nanyang University had 20 million Singapore dollars (about $7,000,000 U.S.). Swarms...
...MONTE B. BROWN (Former Chaplain, U.S. Army, Korea-class of '52) New York City Sir: I am offering, in suitably heroic couplets, a new indoctrination course for basic training in the U.S. Army: The chow is lousy and the beds are hard? You have to pull K.P. and extra guard? The corporal's rude, the sergeant impolite? The captain will not let you out at night? They will not let you have a private phone? It's clear, my boy, you don't know Mr. Cohn. You have a gripe? Don't tell the chaplain...