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With two bamboo and plaster dormitories, classrooms in the bombproof Press Hostel, nine typewriters locally valued at $1,200 each, and 32 cub-reporting students, Chungking's new Graduate School of Journalism of the Central Political Institute got under way last week. The founder and director is polished, ingratiating, 56-year-old Dr. Hollington Tong, pressagent extraordinary to the Chiang Kai-shek regime and biographer of the Gissimo...
...third-ranking prelate, the Bishop of London. Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher let it be known that he, too, had begun negotiations with the commissioners to halve his own salary ($40,000), revamp ancient 44-room Fulham Palace, keep a few rooms for himself, turn the rest into a diocesan hostel...
Teddy set up shop in a bamboo-and-mud hut next to the Press Hostel's kitchens (he says it had the biggest cockroaches in town until it burned down last year), but he spent much of his time getting out to see for himself what was going on. For example, he was the first white man in 15 years to go into parts of Shansi province and come back alive. To get there he flew from Chungking to Sian (400 miles, five hours), went on by train to the Yellow River (70 miles, five days, one wreck...
Although somewhat hampered by the tire shortage, the Outing Club is running two ski trips over the holiday weekend. One of the groups is going to the Plymouth Youth Hostel, and the other is going with Radcliffe skiers to a cabin in Pinkham Notch...
...Anthony Drexel Biddle received a present in London for the relief of child air-raid victims in Hawaii. The present: gs i id in pennies. The donors: child air-raid victims in the East End Youth Hostel...