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...Fifth Avenue, men wore what they wanted: house slippers and hunting jack ets, overalls, bathing trunks, mandarin robes. Columnist Lucius Beebe appeared in front of De Pinna's garbed in lilac butler's livery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uninhibited Ha-Ha | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...Wellington Koo, wealthy wife of the Chinese Ambassador to Great Britain, is a collector of jade and friends, a famed hostess, a noted linguist (English, French, Dutch, German, Mandarin, Malay)-and an unpublished author. For four years she has worked on an autobiography, but only recently did her busy husband, now in the U.S., find time to read it. Two days before the book was due to go on sale last week, more than 6,000 booksellers and critics who already had copies got a hurried telegram from Dial Press: "Publication suspended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Literary Life | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

...answer: There is a Chinese way and an American way. In American, it is chee-ang. In Mandarin, now the official dialect of China, it is approximately John with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chee-ang v. Johng | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

...Other Mandarin pronunciations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chee-ang v. Johng | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

...countless odds and ends that have lived in this gray quarry. The Harvard-Yenching Institute, under Professor Serge possesses the world's largest collection of Chinese and Japanese books, housed below the building in stacks through which run sinister oriental alleys. Through new intensive courses in Japanese, Cantonese, and Mandarin, the H.-Y. Institute is responsible for one of Harvard's major contributions to the war effort, as grinning section men daily ask "How you say dis please?" The least of the building's occupants was the informal Harvard Peeping Tom Society, which collapsed after a few weeks last summer...

Author: By M. S. K., | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 10/10/1942 | See Source »

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