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Chen Pu-lei (Gissimo's secretary) : chun...
Stolid, stocky Chang Chun, 55, "the Gissimo's one-man brain trust," is Governor of Szechwan and leader of the top-notch circle of industrial planners known as the Political Science Group. An able administrator, he has done an admirable job since 1940 of breaking Chungking's province to the Government yoke. He should not be confused with Chen Cheng, 43, able young general commanding the central front and representative of the most influential field officers...
...with 28,000 big & little wigs as members. Ever since the fraternity wrote its constitution in 1911, restricting membership to "white males of good character," there has been wig-pulling over this clause. Two years ago the Ohio State chapter ruled that Negro George Wright and Chinese Dai Ho-chun were "white men" despite the color of their skin, admitted them as members. The chapter was promptly suspended by Phi Delta Kappa's national council...
...Chun Pottery Included...
Included are a number of pieces of twelfth and thirteenth century Chinese pottery known as Chun and they are second to none both in quality and quantity. Some 300 examples of elaborate eighteenth and nineteenth century Chinese jades and crystal's constitute the main body of the collection. Their variety of shape, beauty of color and diversity of ornament make this group, Museum officials state, of unusual interest to art lovers and petroologists...