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...Born in Los Angeles in 1905, five years before the picture people came west from New York and Chicago, Anna May grew up watching movies made on the streets near her home. Her laundryman father tried to beat (literally beat) a dutiful girl's sense into her, and told her she was disgracing the family, as we learn from Graham Russell Gao Hodges' thorough biography Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend. But Anna May couldn't get the dream out of her head. Because she was tall and graceful, and because her big eyes gave...
...magazine put out by Chinese students attending universities in the U.S. published a short description of what new arrivals should expect from their American hosts. "A Chinese student's first visit to America is most fascinating," it related. "By the uneducated he is usually regarded as a laundryman. By the educated he is from an ancient nation that has a glorious past but is at present 'unable to govern herself,' 'run by Reds,' 'disturbed by school boys' and terrorized by Turks and bandits. Some good Christians sincerely rejoice at seeing another 'heathen saved,' while many sociable hostesses remark repeatedly about...
...EDUCATION. It is reported that penicillin was invented by a laundryman in a dyer's shop. Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity, though he began as a newspaper boy. What learning did Jesus have? . . . It is always those with less learning who overthrow those with more learning...
...many Chinese Americans have risen to professional positions and a comfortable standard of living, most Americans are unaware of the seriousness of the problems confronting their country's Chinatowns. As Douglas Lee '76 puts it, "When you see an Asian, you usually figure he's a doctor or a laundryman. People tend to notice only the doctor; they never see the laundryman...
Recently TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil followed Congressman O'Neill as he took what he calls his "ethnic walk" through home-town Cambridge, sampling opinion while simultaneously wooing votes. As he has every Saturday for years, he stopped at his Chinese laundryman's to pick up the shirts that his wife Millie had left earlier in the week, visited his Italian shoemaker, his barber, and half a dozen other shopkeepers...