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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thank you very much. How am I going to explain to my Eastern relatives and friends when they find out that you say the section of San Francisco in which I live is "the toughest part of town" [TIME...
...nice of you to give all that publicity to our Exposition, but we who happen to live in downtown hotels will certainly have reason to bless you when tourists roam our neighborhood all night looking for trouble ! As a matter of fact, the neighborhood you have libeled is like any other downtown dis trict in a large city- it has plenty of bar rooms, gambling houses and houses of assigna tion. But it also includes a dozen quite respectable hotels, the Glide Memorial Church (Southern Methodist), the B'nai Brith Hall, the very newest and swankiest dance-spot...
...Hearst owns 95% of its common stock, but Judge Shearn is his sole voting trustee. As trustee he has irrevocable control over all Hearst enterprises-provided he can keep the Consolidated preferred stockholders happy-until 1947, when Hearst will be 84. Nobody, not even Hearst, knows if Hearst will live that long, and so the trusteeship is a race against death, when the Government may demand up to 20% in inheritance taxes and creditors can no longer be stalled. Even more, it is a race against dwindling confidence. Judge Shearn has abandoned a large part of the Hearst empire...
...Japan, where half the book is laid, Iwan is soon soothed by the exquisitely regimented life of the Muraki family, surmounts exquisitely ruthless objections to marry their beautiful daughter Tama. They have two sons, live a happy life-until news of the war in China leaks through the almost impenetrable censorship. When the Japanese begin bombing Shanghai, Iwan goes home to fight. But before he does so, he and Tama have made their private peace. Stoically heartbroken Tama vows to keep his photograph surrounded with flowers, not to let their sons forget...
...solidly repatriated after 35 years in China, Pearl Buck lives with her second husband and publisher, Richard John Walsh, on a 130-acre farm in Bucks County, Pa. She divides her great energies between tending nine children (one of her own, her husband's three, their adopted five) and writing the "books I want to write." Never waiting for moods -"you'd never get anything done if you did"-she writes about four hours a day, in terms of episodes, never halting in the emotional crises, but never going into one just before lunch. Declaring she would rather...