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...poets, children and cymbal-beating actors. Above all, Payne admires and respects China's students and professors, the guardians of the past and the planners of the future, whose great hegira from the coast to the interior never fails to fill him with wonder. ". . . All that is best io China is crystallized in their presence." Forever China is a literary adventure and discovery. It sometimes suffers from, overwriting and hyperbole. But these are minor flaws among the major pleasures of a superior book. There is a good sample of the Payne style in his evaluation of the bygone Chinese...
...banks of the Wabash, some 30 miles from Evansville, Indiana, stands New Harmony, an ordinary, none too sprightly town of 1,400 souls, approached by a creaking ferry and boasting a 5-&-io/ store, a saloon or two, and a movie theater. There, some time between 1815 and 1824, an angel descended to the green earth. Many later saw the angel's footprint, embedded in a slab of stone; but only one man, a six-foot patriarch with snowy beard and flowing white locks, saw the angel himself. The lone wit ness was Father George Rapp, founder...
Forbidden Land. Cagily, Kent Cooper sent A.P.'s story on the protest to U.S. editors on a hold-for-release basis, io that they would know the censorship score in case the War Department blocked his kick (which it did not). The A.P.'s story was the heaviest indictment yet of non-security censoring. Many papers gave it column-long play. Among the Cooper counts...
...takes four caterers to cover the whole of River Rouge, a good part of Henry Ford's giant plant is served by the Springwells Box Lunch Co., which serves 20,000 men a day with a choice of three sandwiches, dessert and fruit (20?), 12 oz. of stew (io?0, 16 oz. of coffee (12?), single sandwiches (6 to 12?), plus one hot dish...
...Collector Mellon's $50,000,000 worth of pictures and sculptures, 5-io-25-cent Storeman Samuel Henry Kress two years ago had added another $30,000,000 worth...