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...Ruark is, needs a knockabout past, a creative memory, sufficient humor to see the vanity of his inventions, and a delivery good enough to shield from his listeners the gravy stains on material, memory and wit. With this equipment, a talker who happens to be, say, a journalist, can Jang out a newspaper column for years in an average daily elapsed time of eleven minutes (so Newspaperman Ruark has coasted; one suspects the creative memory is an aid in recounting the feat). Or he can put together two volumes of yarns about his boyhood and overgrown-boyhood that have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Power of Talk | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

From Taiwan came Feng-Jang Leu, managing director of the China Artificial Fiber Corp. in Tapei, which manufactures five tons of rayon filament a day, netted some 20% on its $2,000,000 gross last year. He wants a backer with $1,000,000 to build a mill that will 'produce 15 tons a day of fiber, his raw material, thus fill his own needs and those of other Taiwan firms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capitalist Challenge: CAPITAL OPPORTUNITIES | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...Columbia). Clean-cut Doris seems to have gotten in over her head here. Why do some girls like some men? Answers Doris: "Some are charmin', and some have looks./Some have money and some read books/but my guy, he's got so much Ooh Bang, Jiggly jang . . . [clang, clang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Nov. 21, 1955 | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

...took upon himself the awful task of writing the news of her sons' decision to Sin-shee Jang. "Mother has been tortured enough," he said bitterly, after the letter was mailed. "We want her to die now." He added, in helpless rage: "Those god-dammed Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: We Want Her to Die Now | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

Last week Joe Jang got one last letter from China. Sin-shee Jang had killed herself by jumping into a well in the village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: We Want Her to Die Now | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

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