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United States industrial aid to China should attempt to raise that country's standard of living, not bolster the status of reactionaries and power politicians, John K. Fairbank '29, associate professor of History and former director of the U. S. Information Services in China, asserted yesterday in a broadcast over WEEI...
...their next quixotic tilt with the Rhodes Scholar "conspiracy," the Patterson McCormick papers might well point to Associate Professor John W. Fairbank of the History Department, as an example of American Youth subverted by these foreign scholarships. For tall, thoughtful Professor Fairbank, after the good start of being born in South Dakota in 1907, led a clean-cut life till his second year at Wisconsin University. At this point he got mixed up with Harvard, a Rhodes Scholarship, and the question of China's destiny. So that today, or on October 7, 1946, we find him asserting in a "Times...
Such talks draws a barrage of jeers from those whose thoughts on the Chinese are eulled from the works of Sax Rohmer or the speeches of Patrick Hurley. But Professor Fairbank has no apparent regrets. "After my second year at Wisconsin," he says dryly, "I realized that I could stay on and become a Big Wheel, or go to Harvard, work hard, and get what I wanted. I'm glad I chose Harvard." He is also glad that he went to Oxford later, on that Rhodes Scholarship. "In the third year they let you travel, and I went to China...
Meanwhile Professor Fairbank writes magazine articles, then clamps on his battered hat and walks up to Boylston to drive all this home to students in the Far Eastern Area of Regional Studies. His wife is in China with the State Department and at times it must seem a lonely fight indeed...
...Stunt. After studying in Germany, she made her concert debut in Chicago, then sang with the San Carlo and Chicago Opera companies. In 1943 she sang a New York recital of American songs by Virgil Thomson, Paul Bowles, John Cage and others. Says Janet Fairbank: "People thought it was going to be a nut stunt. When I started, the American songs that were sung were mostly the 'I Love Life' type. I think I made people realize that there were good American songs. I always try to stay away from hackneyed things. Unless you are a Lotte Lehmann...