Word: en
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...en Li-fu, China's frail and handsome Minister of Education, won a great victory last October. He succeeded in extending his dictatorship over China's thinkers as far as the U.S. In a new set of rules his Ministry declared that a bureau to "guide and control thought and conduct" of private Chinese students studying abroad would be set up in each foreign country. To these thought controllers the students would have to give unconditional obedience and "the moment facts are substantiated and reported to the Ministry that their speech or writing is contrary to the teachings...
Less comforting, however, was the formal statement issued by Ch'en Li-fu to the press: "The Chinese provisional constitution provides that the Three People's Principles shall be the basic educational principles of the Republic of China; just as democracy is the basic principle of America's education and should not be contravened. Any Chinese who violates the Three People's Principles violates common interests in the war of defense, students being no exception...
...foie gras direct from Strasbourg. The Chambord had been commended by Columnist Lucius Beebe as a nice little place to get a $35 dinner for two without wine. Now OPA inspectors found that the Chambord was getting $15 for a $12 pheasant dinner (Le Coq Faisan en Belle Vue Edward VII, for two). The management hastily dropped Le Coq, substituted a $10 veal chop...
Last week Chuck Luckman was in Manhattan, en route to a Florida conference with Albert Lasker. He had just signed up Charlotte ("So Long Letty") Greenwood for his summer radio program while Bob Hope, "Pepsodent's No. 1 property," is on vacation. Luckman says: "Without looking I can tell the seasons of the year and the Crossley ratings just by the tone of Hope's voice when he phones me for a raise...
Walter Winchell (some 800 papers, circ. some 25,000,000) runs a Broadway-Miami-Washington-Reno-Hollywood gossiporium which "suggests a continuous vaudeville entertainment in progress on a rubberneck bus en route to a peepshow and yet it may be the most effective pro-American propaganda medium in the country. . . ." In suggesting that Walter Winchell is the No. 1 propagandist-ideologue for World War II, Columnist Fisher may well be right. But last week Congressman Martin Dies, investigator of un-American activities, was planning to put Mr. Winchell under the magnifying glass...