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...Hong Kong, where he is starring in a movie called Soldier of Fortune, adventurous Cinemactor Clark Gable, a handsome 53, bumped into some pretty Oriental competition, Li Li-Hwa, durable top queen of the Chinese film world. They started the usual flurry of Gable fables by taking a congenial cruise around Hong Kong Island together...
...Korea's Justice Minister and mayor of Seoul during the 1950 Communist occupation. Pae Choi, an officer trained in the Soviet army, supervised the Reds' "guerrilla guidance bureau," and helped plan the Koje prisoners' riots. Cho Yun Nyong was Pyongyang's deputy Propaganda Minister. Im Hwa directed the Korea-Soviet Cultural Society. Last week, in North Korea's first major purge trials, these and six others drew the death penalty. Two other "plotters" got off with long prison terms...
...passengers were lined up, stripped of money and valuables. Tso Tsen-hwa was the last man in line. When the bandits reached him, he spoke out: "At last I have caught you! I am the tax collector. You are engaging in business and you are evading taxes...
...bandits were ashamed. They stood by as Tso Tsen-hwa inspected their loot, calculated its value at $5,000,000 (Chinese, inflated). "The business tax," he said, "is 3.35%; $120,000 will be sufficient. Since Government regulations provide that itinerant traders may pay their taxes directly to the collector, I will class you as itinerants and conclude the transaction on the spot...
...bandits counted out $120,000 from their loot. Solemnly the tax collector gave them in return the official $4 tax stamps. Then the bandits made off for the hills. Tso Tsen-hwa and his fellow passengers climbed back into the bus, continued on their...