Word: lau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...killed first, the one with his neck almost cut off, turned out to be Lau...
...desperate, quality of the Malaya fighting was brought out in the struggle between two war heroes, Billy Stafford and Lau Yew. Billy Stafford had helped organize Burmese resistance to the Japs. Fifteen times he parachuted into the jungles on secret missions. Recently, he organized in Malaya what he calls a "killers squad" to fight Communists. Malayan Chinese call Billy Tlh Sau-pah, the Iron Broom. On one of his recent raids, Stafford was after Lau Yew, a Chinese who was once Billy's comrade in arms in the fight against the Japanese. The British considered Leader Lau Yew such...
Chinese and Japanese of small means banded together in huis (syndicates), pooling their resources and promoting business enterprises. A former social service worker, Hung Wai Ching, organized his friends and swung a $320,000 deal to acquire Honolulu's gaudy Lau Yee Chai nightclub. With Ruddy Tongg, one of the most successful of the new promoters. Hung has recently started Transpacific Air Lines (inter-island). Ruddy Tongg owns a printing and publishing business in Oahu and cattle ranches on Hawaii. Chin Ho, another Chinese, organized the company which purchased the Waianae sugar plantation on Oahu...
Strongest indication of the general drought appeared in the July-August selections of the nation's largest "book clubs." The Book-of-the-Month Club desperately dug up Rickshaw Boy (Reynal & Hitchcock; $2.75), a translation of a seven-year-old Chinese novel by Lau Shaw about "a humble man's dream of owning his own rickshaw." It is a dream, said Clubster Lewis Gannett, filled with the "love of a steady run and a good sweat." (As "dividend,"the Club tossed in the eight-months-old novel, The Green Years, by standard best-seller A. J. Cronin...
...catching it on the fly to Hollywood, where such earlier creations as Lost Horizon have fattened Author-Scripter Hilton's purse, made his characters familiar to millions. Other famed Hilton pictures: Knight Without Armor; Goodbye, Mr. Chips; Random Harvest (see cut). British Author Hilton and Chinese Author Lau Shaw proved brothers under the skin. Both proffered an amiable, spotless husband married to a woman more harpy than human. Each seemed to feel his harpy-heroine typified the evil forces against which the modern, democratic civilized man must fight. Each had a tonic for America's jaded summer nerves...