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More placidly told, the main story concentrates on the young woman Tanni and the war's effect on her relationship with the Buddhist Lao Peng and with her lover Poya. Tanni is a girl with an equivocal "past," revealed with a shade more suspense than it deserves. Poya is a parlor strategist of no mean talent who can discourse on erotic esthetics and who, for a while, is all she knows enough to need...
...Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek concentrated 120,000 local Chinese troops on his southern border with an additional 80,000 from his Chungking Army to form a rear guard. His sappers dynamited the 450-foot railway bridge spanning the Red River on the Indo-China-Yünnan border at Lao-Kay and Chinese labor crews began to take up the track of the Chinese portion of the French-owned railway for use elsewhere in China. One hundred and twenty small and large Japanese warships moved into the Gulf of Tonkin and dropped anchor...
...Past the End of the Pavement-Charles G. Finney-Holt ($2). A nostalgic tale of smalltown, small-boy Missouri brothers with a passion for odd pets. Author Finney (The Circus of Dr. Lao) describes the animals brightly, designs his laughs for adults...
...UNHOLY CITY-Charles G. Finney -Vanguard ($2). Satirical phantasy, in the Major Hoople cartoon vein of wit, about an airline passenger grounded in Floreat Go-Lee; by the author of The Circus of Dr. Lao...
...absorbing narrative, it does succeed in giving us much of the flavor of a land where alarm clocks lie buried with emperors and it is good form to have stained teeth. The Indo-China wing of the Kelly-Roosevelt Field Museum Expedition, headed by Harold Coolidge left remote Lao Kay early in 1929. With its impressive impedimenta packed on some ninety sturdy little ponies, tended by their mafous or native drivers, the safari toiled over the ridge of Tonkin and Laos. After several weeks of overland travel, the four American scientists embarked on frail native canoes and floated down...