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...FOOK New York City
Many of these young propagandists adopted the cartoonist's and caricaturist's method. A sixth-grader conceived Japan as a silkworm just fallen off a mulberry leaf (entitled He Overate!); one Chune Fook did a heart-rending distortion of two famine victims. Judged best was Ernest Louie's deadly earnest, broad-stroked water color of a Chinese family fleeing in terror from a bombed village. Ernest, a 16-year-old Clevelander, reads the papers...
...more difficult for their fathers to substitute suits & shirts for brilliant regalia, to adopt a new God, to learn U. S. business and banking methods. Few succeeded at all; those who did usually compromised about dress or family customs, or between the gods. One such was Lee Fook, longtime foreign-exchange official in the National City Bank, financial adviser to New York's Chinatown. He wore horn-rimmed spectacles, occidental dress, handled and ex changed Chinatown dollars sent back to relatives in China. But not until six years ago did he adopt Christianity, to please his second wife. Last...
Died. "Little Louis" Fook, 43, merchant, prominent in the Tong councils, beloved "Mayor of Chinatown," friend of Governor Alfred E. Smith (he went to Emily Smith's wedding); in Brooklyn, of tuberculosis...
...Brickley tore off sixty yards and kicked a goal as well: Eddie Mahan went around the end and gave the Elis hell: O'Brein pasted Rafferty, assisted by Mike Shea: Kilpatric fook Tom Shevlin's place and messed...