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Long Ears Equal Wisdom? Second only to the paradox that Japanese should restore Peking's name last week is the paradox that the Japanese military Com-mander-in-Chief at Shanghai, long-eared General Iwane Matsui, was an intimate friend and cash contributor to the fortunes of Dr. Sun Yatsen, the late Father of the Chinese Revolution who is revered as a Saint at Nanking, the Chinese Capital. Long ears, characteristic of all Japanese statues of the divine Buddha, are considered to indicate wisdom in the Orient. Last week the Shanghai correspondents of the New York and the London...
...local English tradespeople who still speak of him as "Prince Freddy." Invariably Farouk's four "F" sisters dressed like demure English schoolgirls with pigtails down their backs. Queen Nazli excelled her brood in snapping, developing and printing photographs. Her Majesty is a descendant of a French com-mander of dragoons whom the Emperor Napoleon took to Egypt, and from this ancestor King Farouk inherits his "heavy dragoon" appearance, big-boned, healthy and hefty, with a fair complexion most rare in an Egyptian. Like many people of Arab strain, however, His Majesty is not only "quick at arithmetic" but also...
Loudly recalled by His Majesty's Loyal Opposition were the many occasions on which U. S. and British statesmen have proclaimed that their countries will "never again" fight each other. Abruptly putting these professions to a British test last week, Liberal Geoffrey Mander asked the Prime Minister directly whether His Majesty's Government would be willing to consider sharing their naval bases with the U. S. Navy...
...yard backstroke--Won by Graham Cummin '38 (H); second Richard T. fisher '36; third A. Mander (M). Time...
Marriage Revealed. Lieutenant Com-mander Donald Baxter MacMillan, 60, Arctic explorer, veteran of 16 expeditions, including Admiral Peary's to the North Pole 27 years ago; and Miriam Look, his secretary; according to his announcement "in February and near St. Augustine...