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Dodds' unorthodox style had changed little since he ran his first (and involuntary) race. As a boy in Falls City, Neb., he threw a stone at Lloyd Hahn's passing automobile. When the then great runner stopped to give chase, he could not catch the chunky culprit. But Hahn recognized a future champion when he saw one, made young Dodds his prot...
CHINA TO ME-Emily Hahn-Doubleday Doran...
...Emily Hahn became the University of Wisconsin's first woman graduate in mining engineering. Several years later she began to smoke cigars, wrote a satirical guide to seduction (Seductio ad Absurdum). In 1930 she turned up in the Belgian Congo wearing shorts and pith helmet, and wrote a book about it (With Naked Foot). After a spell as a reporter in London, footloose Emily's flight from the domestic atmosphere of Winnetka took her in 1935 to newspaper work in Shanghai and an unconventional apartment in the city's red-light district. She stayed in the Orient...
...bride" to the Soong sisters. One day Emily and Madame Chiang were "chattering along like old friends" when the Generalissimo strode in. He took one look at Emily (who had sprung to attention), cried "Hao, Hao, Hao!" (Good, Good, Good), fled from the room in confusion. "Sit down, Miss Hahn," cooed Madame, smiling. "He didn't have his teeth...
Divorced. Herbert Asbury, 53, slummer in the pasts of U.S. cities (The Gangs of New York, The Barbary Coast, The French Quarter), associate editor of Collier's; by Helen Hahn Asbury, 41, Manhattan advertising executive, sister of repatriated Orientalist Emily Hahn; after 16 years of marriage; in Mexico...