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...trap was sprung by hard-riding horsemen of Ma Pufang, the Moslem boss of China's Northwest. First, retreating Hu Tsung-nan made a stand some 75 miles from Sian. Then, swooping from the mountains in the Communist rear, Ma's cavalry, about 20,000 strong and led by Ma's 29-year-old son, Major General Ma Chi-yuan, took the Reds by surprise, cut them up, forced them into ragged retreat. Last week, Ma's cavalry were still carrying on the fight against four Communist armies in the vicinity of Sian. For awhile...
...Boss. The tidings of his son's victory reached Ma Pufang as he was settling down in his big stone headquarters outside the walls of Lanchow, gateway to the Northwest. The dying Nationalist government had appointed him supreme commander of an area about 13 times as big as Texas, mostly wasteland, underdeveloped and underpeopled (about 14 million-one-third Han Chinese, one-third Moslem Chinese, and the remainder Tibetans, Turkis, Mongolians, Kazaks). Ma's elevation put the Northwest on its own. His land was a poor holding in comparison with the lost coastal regions and lush river valleys...
...Look into my eyes," Princess Margaret ordered a startled dancing partner not long ago. "I am looking into them, Ma'am," he stammered. "Well," said Margaret, "you're looking into the most beautiful eyes in England. The Duchess of Kent has the most beautiful nose. The Duchess of Windsor has the most beautiful chin. And I have the most beautiful eyes. Surely," she added, with an impish gleam in her eye, as her flustered partner groped for a suitable answer, "you believe what you read in the papers...
Last week Margaret's few close friends flocked by to hear about her trip and perhaps persuade her to do a really sharp imitation of some pompous continental dignitary. But before the girlish giggles began, they still remembered to call her "ma'am," for Margaret is the daughter of the King. No matter how seductively the moon may shine as she drives home from a party, there can be no stolen kisses; a Scotland Yard man is always present to see her indoors; often a lady-in-waiting is at the door, too. As one young Briton remarked...
...dental practitioner gets the whole blooming family--Ma, Pa and the children--coming to him year after year. Have a measuring stick in your office. Measure the brats and weigh them every time they come in. Get ma's and pa's medical history. You'd have a genetic history of every family, and among you you'd accumulate a body of data vastly superior to any in existence...