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The fishermen of the China coast are a rugged and self-reliant lot. Inured to the vagaries of wind, weather and their fellow man, they have been able to endure better than those ashore the demands of their new Communist masters. Proud and individualistic, they were often forced to attend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONG KONG: Voyage to Freedom | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

Wise Fish. Ever since then, sometimes in fleets of three or four, sometimes in a single junk, sometimes trusting their lives to a flimsy sampan across 30 or 40 miles of open sea, other Chinese fishermen have followed the original 1,600 to Hong Kong. Some were caught on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONG KONG: Voyage to Freedom | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

When Milton S. Eisenhower abruptly resigned as president of Pennsylvania State University (TIME, June 18), he announced that he would make no decision about his future "until I've had a long fishing vacation." This week the vacation was over. And of the many offers he had received, Milton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Milton's Choice | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

Upstairs Bathroom. Honor Tracy, for her first novel published in the U.S., has written the farce of the year. But Catholic readers, especially those of Irish descent, are warned that they will probably find it also highly scandalous. Patrickstown is all right in its own way-only an hour'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Farce of the Year | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

Chasing Whales. Manjiro was the fisherman son of an impoverished Japanese widow. In the feudal Japan of his day, a boy of such low caste could hope for nothing except a life of toil and a full belly each day if he was lucky. But Manjiro was luckier than that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pre-Perry Peripatetic | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

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