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...soldier has with him 30 little Army manuals and four sets of 25 phonograph records. These are a presentation on paper and wax of the Army's top-flight Chinese-teaching team: Charles Francis Hockett, ex-University of Michigan teacher, and Fang Chaoying, ex-Library of Congress aide. The story of their experiences suggests that the soldier's strange job may make sense in any language...
Ruth Earnshaw, Philadelphia-born wife of Professor Lo Chuan-fang: "Out here we sometimes indulge in the notion that we college teachers are the forgotten men and women of the war. Those of us who feel that the reasons for which we entered the profession are still valid are deter mined to stick it out. . . . We know that China's war is not solely against the Japa ese; it is almost equally against ignorance and poverty, and our battle on the education front will go on long after the last shot is fired at the invader." Professor Lo (University...
Lassie is the Mei Lan-fang of dog actors. She is a he. The name used to be Pal. Pal was born the runt of his litter. For a while, Trainer Rudd Weatherwax, who readies quite a few dogs and cats for the screen, had given Pal up as histrionically hopeless. But when M.G.M. saw the first rushes for Lassie, they immediately upped Pal's salary from $90 to $250 per week. Even Pal's stand-in got $100 a week...
Reported Dead. Mei Lan-fang, 49, great Chinese tan (actress); of poison; in Shanghai. Although Mei's mastery of the masks, makeup, swords and fans of plot-bare, nuance-encrusted Chinese plays mystified Manhattan theatergoers in 1930, he was the biggest box-office name in China and long top-ranking tan (father of two sons, he always played feminine roles). Emperor Hsuan-tung confirmed his title, "Foremost of the Pear Orchard" -Chinese equivalent of an "Oscar...
London had some new heroes last week: delayed-bomb-extraction squads. Londoners called them "fang pullers." The city buzzed with stories of these daring men who dug deep into the ground, lifted out the still-live explosives, and carried them off to destroy them in open places. One, looking down into a hole before climbing in, saw burst gas mains and cut electric cables and said: "I don't mind being gassed, I don't mind being blown up. But I don't bloody well like being electrocuted -are those wires SAFE?" Another sapper, sitting astride...