Word: lins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lin's Shoots Sirs: Herewith my first contribution (?) to Letters...
...TIME, Jan. 4, p. 25, you state "when she grows up Su-lin will . . . eat nothing but bamboo shoots." In the same article you state that the baby giant panda's native habitat is "China's chilly Szechwan Province." It has been my belief that bamboo grows only in tropical or subtropical climates. The northernmost point at which I have seen it growing is just outside Jacksonville, Fla. and that is, 1 believe, at a Government experimental garden. Is there a different variety native to cold climates? Otherwise, how does this animal find bamboo in its native habitat...
Mountainous Szechwan Province is chilly in winter, temperate in summer. Bamboo, which is not confined to tropical climates, grows there. Su-lin's future bamboo shoots will probably come from Florida...
...wrote his name the old-fashioned Chinese way, would be Soong Tse-wen, but he chooses to be T. V. Soong, and never in any circumstances Tse-wen Soong. This last would give any Chinese the jitters and is not only incorrect but "impossible"-like speaking of Roosevelt Frank-lin Delano. Mr. Soong's brother-in-law, Dr. H. H. Kung, was originally Kung Hsiang-hsi, therefore took the initials...
When she grows up Su-lin will be 5 ft. and weigh 300 lb., eat nothing but bamboo shoots, of which Mrs. Harkness brought back a supply. She will stay in a refrigerated room in the Harkness apartment until Mrs. Harkness finds a zoo willing to put up $20,000 for another panda expedition. Sighed Mrs. Harkness: "I would love to find Su-lin a mate but that's a lot to expect...