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...foot, 200-pound Foo Tak-yam last week visited Macao's Buddhist Kuan Yin Temple. His partly pious, partly sensual intention was to smoke opium and contemplate a successful, sinful life that began in peddling doughnuts and culminated in ruling the fabulous gambling industry of the Orient's Monte Carlo. Foo's celebration was under way when three Chinese entered the hilltop pagoda, pulled pistols from their long black gowns and whisked him away in a black sedan. Four days later his son received a preliminary ransom demand: one picul of gold (133⅓ lbs. in weight...
Macao rumor had it that he was sought by both the Chinese Central Government and the Communists as a collaborationist and profiteer. Despite the ransom note, many wondered whether the snatch at Kuan Yin Temple was for profit or politics-or both. At week's end the kidnappers upped the price to six piculs...
...Kuan-a-desco cartty-o gallopy-wallopy-china...
...Ellyn, Illinois, T. J. Hawkins, Westbord, Ont. Canada, B. F. Hazen, Cambridge, R. W. Hidy, Cambridge, E. Higginbothom, Millbury, M. B. Howell, New York City, Noyenen Huang, Canton, China, K. D. Hutchinson, Greenwood, J. Irving, Cupar Fife, Scotland, G. S. Jackson, Portland, Maine, R. T. Kimberlin, Danville, Indiana, Son Kuan Ko. Hunan, China, A. Korb, Dorchester, D. H. Leiffer, Los Angeles, California, J. Leinbach, Phila., Pennsylvania, E. M. Lindsay, Oo. Annagh, N. Ire., R. W. Logan, Richmond, Virginia, Theodore Norman, Brookline, J. E. O'Loughlin, Somerville, H. W. O'Neill, Sydney, Australis, P. F. Pearson, Keene, New Hampshire...
...Neighborhood Playhouse last week interrupted the run of The Dybbuk with a triple bill of light music. The three are A Burmese Pwe; Hayden's opera-bouffe, The Apothecary; and Kuan Yin, a Chinese fantasy. They combine into one of the most graceful and thoroughly satisfactory entertainments that the town now boasts. The Burmese piece depicts the general good time to be had by all when a wealthy host gives a party. The Apothecary is light and whimsical, and the Chinese piece has bits of Russian and a dash of good old Broadway. Albert Carroll and the resident Neighborhood troupe...