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...able to find a cottage for him there, and Shanghai Bureau Chief William Gray has his eye on a small hotel on an island off Wusih in Lake Tai Hu, northwest of Shanghai. "Wusih," says Gray, "is a sort of Chinese Venice, where you travel mostly by motor houseboat, a top-heavy but pleasant craft with attendants who serve tea and Chinese chow at thoughtful intervals...
...liked to spend weekends drinking and gambling himself, aboard a craft known as the "Bum Boat," an ancient stern-wheeler converted into a houseboat. When the City Council decided one December to clean up the red-light district, he protested vehemently that such an action in the week before Christmas would be unChristian. On such occasions he was a formidable figure-a wry neck kept his head cocked to the right and made him look like an angry rooster. Once he ended a two-hour Council debate by rising and bellowing "Bull!" at the top of his lungs...
...with some 1,500,000 members. Their activities range from sports to classes in stenography, from providing board & room for city working girls to running summer vacation camps for youngsters. Currently the Y.W. is hard at work in war zones, with some 20 rest and recreation centers (including a houseboat on the Nile at Cairo) which provide servicewomen with such occasional luxuries as breakfast in bed, hairdressers, tearooms...
Febrile, fantastic Jean Cocteau, France's No. i playboy of the intellect, left the Paris Ritz to live on a houseboat and do war work. His war work, said he, would be writing a play about love, explained: "Love and War are the only two eternal themes. But when making one it is best to talk about the other...
Nine days before Orville Wright made his first flight 30 years ago last month at Kitty Hawk, N. C., the late Samuel Pierpont Langley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, had a four-winged flying machine called the Dragon Fly ready to take off from the top of a houseboat in the Potomac River. With a mighty chug-chugging the contraption reared up, flopped into the water. Several years later the Dragon Fly was patched up and flown. The Smithsonian secured it for exhibit, labeled it "... The First Machine Capable of Flight Carrying a Man." Enraged, the Wright Brothers refused...