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...summer of 1938, Physiologist Robert Kho-seng Lim, who had served in World War I with the British Royal Army Medical Corps, left his laboratory in Peiping Union Medical College to organize the Chinese Red Cross Medical Relief Corps (to train doctors, nurses and orderlies). Driven from one town to another by the Japanese invasion, the medical workers finally settled in the hills of Kweiyang, Kweichow, in thatched huts of log and plaster. Kweiyang, more than a thousand miles southwest of Peking, is now the medical centre of Free China: there are the refugee remains of famed National Hsiangya Medical...
...first six months, the Red Cross Corps trained 1,432 medical workers, gave special courses to 32 surgeons, 161 physicians. Dr. Lim also organized mobile ambulance and stretcher units to travel vith the armies, for sometimes wounded soldiers had to be carried 100 miles to base hospitals...
Practically all Dr. Lim's equipment and supplies from the U. S. come through the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China, which has some 70 chapters throughout the U. S. Executive chairman of the bureau is Professor Frank Co Tui of New York University's College of Medicine. Last year Dr. Co sent $500,000 worth of supplies to China. Included was a lathe for making wooden legs...
There's where the lim'ricks warble sweet in the springtime...
Since scholarly Frenchman Hugues Panassié (Le Jazz Hot) went seeking the kingdom of swing in the U. S. (1938), other foreign pilgrims have followed him. Latest is a diminutive, 21-year-old Javanese named Harry Lim, editor in chief of the Batavia, Dutch East Indies magazine Swing (Officieel Orgaan van the Batavia Rhythm Club), circulation 800. Critic Lim, whose favorite band leader is Duke Ellington, visited Manhattan, listened reverently in hotspots, bought about 1,500 jazz records to take home with him. Critic Lim did not like jitterbugs. They seemed like irreverent, undignified drunkards. "If," said...