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MICHAEL NAI-KIANG...
...Cowherd, I am prompted to send you the following quotation from a poem by Tu Fu (712 to 770 A.D.) concerning Han Kan, the T'ang Dynasty painter of Cowherd. The poem, A Song of a Painting (in my English version* from the literal English text of Kiang Kang-hu), is addressed to General Ts'ao, who was a painter of war horses preceding Han Kan. Tu Fu, easily one of China's greatest poets, would apparently not have agreed with your estimate of Han Kan as being "China's greatest painter of horses...
...Jade Mountain, an anthology of T'ang Dynasty poetry, translated by Poet Bynner from the texts of Kiang Kang...
...strong leadership of President Eisenhower and the near-unanimity of the Congress in backing him in the Formosa resolution undoubtedly retrieved much of the U.S. prestige and influence that had been recently lost in Asia. In the preceding fortnight the Communist capture of Yi-kiang Island near the Tachens had reminded Asians that the Reds were still on the march, the U.S. still on the defensive. Then came the suggestions of Secretary Dulles and President Eisenhower that the U.N. might arrange a cease-fire in the troubled area. This statement of policy was partly designed to be read in Europe...
Half-colours were awarded to the following regular players on the first and second fifteen's: Thorpe Kelly, Audy Ecklund, Hollis Hunnewell, Doug Purdy, Pierre Lelandais, John Harley, Gerry Dekoch, Al Green, Bill Miller, Ken Kunhardt, Charley Whiting, Jose Soriano, Kit Kiang, Jay Lyons, Dwight Nishimura, Bill Swan, George Whitney, Jerry Cummings, and Sturgiss Eaton...