Word: mei
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHIN MEI KAO New York City...
...dreamed up a better one. Mao's wife is a slender, handsome woman of about 45 who once acted in Chinese movies under the name Lan Pin, now calls herself Chiang Ching. She married him in 1939 after he divorced No. 3. Liu's wife, Wang Kuang-mei, is also his fourth. The first was killed during China's civil war, the other two were divorced. Some 25 years his junior (Liu is in his early 60s), she is dark. trim, and, judging by her appearance in a gown of opulent velvet, clothes-conscious...
...Died. Mei Lan-fang, 67, China's "Great King of Actors," whose willowy grace and flawless falsetto made him the foremost female impersonator in the all-male Chinese classical drama, won him worldwide applause-his 1930 U.S. tour brought him honorary degrees from two U.S. colleges-and earned him as much as $4,000 per half-hour; of a heart attack; in Peking. He defiantly grew a mustache to avoid entertaining China's Japanese conquerors during World War II, but traveled the world for the Communists, was visited during his fatal illness by another onetime tan (male actress...
Gymnastics at Dawn. Along with Bishop Walsh, 13 Chinese priests were sentenced in Shanghai to terms from five to 25 years. And there was one life sentence-for Bishop Ignatius Kung Ping-mei of Soochow. Slender, smiling Kung Ping-mei, 59, has all the qualifications to make himself hated by the Reds. Born to a wealthy Roman Catholic family in a small town near Shanghai, he studied for the priesthood in Shanghai's French Jesuit College at Zikawei, where he learned to speak perfect French and imperfect English and to understand Westerners. Father Kung specialized in education, showed notable...