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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus did communism take over Shanghai, half again as big as great Moscow itself, and the most modern city in China. The imperialists had built Shanghai, and when imperialism's day was done, the Chinese had inherited the city only to find it a legacy they could not completely control. The greatest commercial center in Asia was certainly not proCommunist; but it was anti-Nationalist because the Nationalists had not the discipline to master Shanghai's half-Eastern, half-Western soul. The city had the energies of two worlds, and the controls of neither. Now world communism...
...restrain him; it was too dangerous. But by this time Japanese photographers had jumped into the pond to take pictures of the Emperor at its edge. "If it isn't dangerous for them," protested Hirohito, "why is it dangerous for me?" Sighed the chamberlain: "If Your Majesty can find a newspaperman's armband to wear, please jump...
...more than four years, Amerika has been the only U.S. magazine widely circulated in the U.S.S.R. At ten rubles ($1.23), the 50,000 copies of Amerika's Russian edition get thumbed by about 1,000,000 So. viet citizens. In the first Czech issue of Amerika, readers will find 72 pages of reprints from the Russian, ranging from the 4-H Clubs to Radio City, and from Thomas Jefferson to James Thurber...
Island Prayer. Among the many dialects of the islands, pastors and teachers mainly use pidgin English to preach the Gospel. Even Western Christians may find their own familiar words and phrases spring to new life in pidgin's sharp-cut images. Pastor Salau demonstrated with the Lord's Prayer...
Sesquipedalian Words. Last week, U.S. readers could find out a good deal more about the panjandrum. A group of scholars, critics and historians had written sketches and tributes for a book about him (Archibald Henderson: The New Crichton, edited by Samuel Stevens Hood; Beechhurst Press; $5). Among the contributors were the late Historian Charles A. Beard, Novelist Betty Smith, and the university's ex-president (now U.S. Senator), Frank Porter Graham. Each took a different phase of the Henderson chronicle...