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...School, entering practice locally in 1904. Two years later, at the suggestion of Dean Ames, he left for China to organize a law school at the Imperial Pei Yang University. For his five years of work there the Chinese government decorated him with the Order of the Double Dragon--which he says, means virtually nothing...
Readers may also join the lively game that Translator White plays among the footnotes and try to puzzle out what animal, vegetable or mineral the Middle Ages mistook for unicorn, dragon, griffin, basilisk, etc. White guesses that the poison-breathing basilisk was very likely the cobra, but thinks the griffin was strictly mythological, in fact "something of a Hieroglyphin...
...among the gilded arabesques, statesmen from eight nations sat down in Bangkok's Ananda Samakom palace last week and, in the words of John Foster Dulles, set about making SEATO "a going, living thing." The nervous little states that have already felt the fiery breath of the Chinese dragon listened intently. "SEATO must convince us that we will really be defended," said Laos' Premier Katay Sasorith. "Unless we are so convinced, we must succumb...
...bottom of this seemingly fantastic accusation? A lawyer, of course. Which lawyer? Well-it happens that the great novelist and his dragon of a wife live on a small island near Anson Page's home town of Pompey's Head. That makes Page the obvious legal knight for the dangerous mission...
Disneyland (Wed. 7:30 p.m., ABC). Wind in the Willows and The Reluctant Dragon...