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...dinner, speakers Robert Lane, director of the recent Greater Boston Survey and John Kingman '14, president of United Settlements, traded attacks. Lane urged that tax-supported agencies Lane urged that tax-supported houses as the main organ for social service work...
...Graduate Secretary Charles W. Duhig '29 will welcome the delegates and Dean Sperry of the Divinity School will deliver the closing address. After-dinner speakers are John Kingman '14, president of the United Settlements of Greater Boston, and Robert Lane, director of the Greater Boston Community Survey...
...that in for fun," Kingman explains. "If people take my work too seriously, I'm disappointed. Of course, my pictures are sarcastic too. I mean, the signs say 'Go Here, Go There' when you don't really have to, and on Sundays, when there's no traffic, the stoplights keep on blinking as if they were crazy. Don't you feel that...
Halfway Back. The sarcasm is more friendly than biting, for Kingman takes a naïve delight in U.S. ways. He keeps the radio in his studio going constantly ("It softens my mind and helps me paint. I know all about Luncheon at Sardi's and Heigh-ho, Silver!"), and all through dinner he watches television programs with his wife and two children. "To Chinese people," he says, "football is very queer, but I like to go and see the games. Also, I play bridge once a week...
...Kingman's thoughts are turning eastward again. "Everyone writes that my work is half East and half West," he says, "that I'm in between. I don't know, I just want to be myself. Sometimes I dream I'm in Hong Kong; I want to go back and see if the dream is right...