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...needs of Red China, Comrade Soong Ching-ling has a warm and open hearth. When the nation's mass drive for steel started a month ago, the 68-year-old lady had her secretaries build a small furnace in the garden of her Shanghai home. There-said Radio Peking-the secretaries now toil blithely from dawn until evening, producing as much as 341 Ibs. of good-quality steel a day. Last week, according to commune knowledge, the lady joined the workers in the garden, saying: "Making steel also tempers people." As vice chairman of the Standing Committee...
...Singapore. He married her during a leave in the U.S. and loves her dearly, but while he sensibly oversees operations with a machine gun in hand, Patricia is convinced that love and decency are the real weapons needed to bring the Communist guerrillas to peace. When she practically adopts Ling, a Chinese Communist girl and a very nice dish, every male in the vicinity begins to go ting-a-ling, and Author Boulle has a field day trying to prove that men are men, women are women, and do-gooder females do not know East from West even when they...
Docking in Los Angeles after a voyage from Hong Kong with his fourth wife, Chinese-American Kay Ling, 45, Musical Comedy Composer Rudolf (The Vagabond King) Friml, 73, sniffed: "We were in London last spring and attended My Fair Lady. I was nonplused. It was a terrible thing. I couldn't sit through it. I just walked...
Young Wisconsin Lawyer Haskell could fight-and write. He played a distinguished personal part in repe ling Pickett's Charge, and weeks later, the fever of battle still hot in him, he wrote his account of Gettysburg. It is the classic of its kind. Previously snatched up in limited editions as a buff's bonanza, and quoted by virtually all scholars of the battle for its vivid closeups of the thick of things, it now comes for the first time to the popular Civil War book market. The original gets tasteful, unobtrusive editing by Bruce (A Stillness...
...leading lady author of Red China, 51-year-old Ting Ling, last week was hard at work on a new job: scrubbing floors at the Peking headquarters of the Writers' Union. She was not alone. Many "distinguished professors," crowed Radio Peking, are now performing the same menial tasks as Ting Ling, in punishment for such crimes as "rightist activities, individualism and anti-party feeling...