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Only once in his life had Sergeant Third Class Liu Yun ever worn leather shoes. That was as a Szechwan peasant boy in the year of the bountiful crops. His father had made enough money that season to buy him a pair of shiny black shoes. Liu could still remember how smooth and bright they felt on his stubble-tough soles...
...four graduate students selected are: Donald J. Blake '46; Dudley Frasier '45; Donald Greenholz '45; Kwang Liu '46; Alan S. Prager '46; James C. Raff '45; John G. Rowe '45; John T. Tate...
...Soong was born the year (1894) of the Sino-Japanese war in which Japan took the Liu Chiu Islands and Formosa from China. His father, of Hainanese trader stock, was Charlie Jones Soong, who as a boy (9) came to the U.S., be came a Christian and returned to China to father one of the world's most distinguished broods of children. T.V. is the brother of the famed Soong sisters, China's three first ladies— Ching-ling (Madame Sun Yat-sen), Ailing (Madame H. H. Kung), Mei-ling (Madame Chiang Kai-shek). Of Soong...
...Liu made the official presentation at a meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs in Cambridge on September 17, 1936. Part of the ceremonies commemorating the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of the College, the donation was made in conjunction, strangely enough, with the gift of a Japanese lantern from the Nipponese alumni...
...reformed loafer named Liu confessed that he had once been the district's champion erh-lü-tze. His wife & children left him for shame. Then reform seized him. Now he had ample livestock, 21 acres under cultivation. His family was home again. His village had elected him the local "hero of labor." Overwhelmed, the 63 erh-lü-tze hit the sawdust trail...