Word: lum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went well with her for a while-even after the Communists took over the village. But in October she wrote her oldest son, Joe Lum Jang, a San Francisco apartment operator, a frightened letter. She had been arrested by the Communists for the peculiar crime of "mistreating her daughter-in-law." They attempted to make her "confess" by torture, but she refused. Then her face was daubed with paint-the mark of an "unlawful woman"-and she was forced to stand before the village courthouse without food or water. After a day and a night she broke down and paid...
Returning to earth, Joe King's "G-A" at 190 Third Avenue is tops for inexpensive German-American food, thick brew and community singing. Lum Fong has got it if you are looking for real stuff in Chinese food, while Sallo de Champagne, 135 MacDougal St. in the Village offers comfortable couchs to sit and relax on. It has a truly unique atmosphere, and serves terrific wines and champagnes...
...Lester Lum Colbert is a handsome, rugged Texan with a quick smile, a quicker tongue and a big hello for everyone. At 45, he is president of Chrysler Corp., the second largest automaker in the world. He never lets the size of his job bother him. He likes to turn to his pretty blonde wife and drawl: "Angel, can you remember when I've ever been kept awake by worrying?" Angel always shakes her head. Says Tex Colbert: "Business doesn't worry me. It's a downright pleasure...
When the Chrysler Corp. delegated Lester Lum Colbert to negotiate a new wage agreement with the U.A.W.-C.I.O. last August, Detroit's automen gossiped that he was being groomed for the presidency (TIME, Sept. 4). Last week, Chrysler directors made it official. President K. T. Keller, nudging the retirement age of 65 and busy three days a week with his new job as director of the Defense Department's guided missile program, moved up to board chairman-a post vacant since Walter P. Chrysler's death in 1940. Into the presidency went "Tex" Colbert, 45, boss...
Returning to earth, Joe King's "G.A" at 190 Third Avenue is tops for inexpensive German-American food, thick brew in thicker glasses, and community singing. Lum Fong, of all things, specializes in Chinese food rocking with authenticity...