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Probably ninety per cent of the American populace think the only Chinese food is the Cantonese. Happily this is not so, and such dishes as Peking ravioli, shrimp on toast, and Shanghai duck are delicious evidence that the Mandarin is just as good, if not better. Until now northern Chinese fare has been as rare in discovery as it is superb in taste, and local epicures have had to travel many miles in search...
...travel out, whether by rickshaw, Volks-wagen or the Belmont bus, to the Fresh Pond rotary and you will find Cambridge's own mecca for fanciers of Mandarin treats such as Moo Shi pork, and hot and sour Peking soup. A dish that particularly recommends itself is Joyce Chen special shrimp--a specialty of the house, of course, because it bears the name of the proprietor...
...restaurant, "Because I like to cook and to give our northern Chinese friends a place to eat." And the restaurant does attract many Chinese, as well as a good proportion of the faculty and students engaged in Oriental studies at the University. Mrs. Chen should corner the market of Mandarin food-lovers in the whole Metropolitan Boston area. Indeed, all of Massachusetts, or all of New England, for it is the only one of its kind in the Northeast Corner...
While Ormandy was in Chicago, mandarin-faced Conductor Reiner walked onto the stage of Philadelphia's Academy of Music, acknowledged the orchestra's standing tribute with a frozen smile and launched into a program that included Berlioz' Overture to Beatrice and Benedict, Mozart's "Linz" Symphony, Ravel's Rapsodie Esbagnole, Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5. Although Reiner had rehearsed the orchestra only three times, his performance was a stunning revelation...
...Tommy White packed his silk scarf, leather helmet and spurs (then Air Corps uniform items) and went to Peking as a language officer to study Chinese. This was a puzzling assignment that White still does not quite understand, but he made the most of it. He became proficient at Mandarin, even compiled a Chinese-English dictionary of military terms; he also got to know some White Russian refugees and studied Russian. Duly noted in his record, this helped get him assigned, at the age of 32, as assistant military attache at the U.S. embassy at Moscow...