Word: nan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ENGLISH YEAR (243 pp.)-Nan Fairbrother-Knopf...
Another Geneva figure Beal recognized was the delegation's secretary, Wan Ping-nan, "a heavy, sinister-looking, ' German-educated Chinese whom I had known in Nanking." One member of the delegation was unidentified by the West for the first three days. On the fourth day of the conference, Beal cabled: "I was able to identify this man for the American delegation as Chang Wen-chin, who served Chou as secretary and English interpreter during the Marshall mission and is in the same capacity here...
...then asked how I could get in touch with my old acquaintance Wan Ping-nan, the secretary of the Chinese delegation. Said Chang: "We have a liaison office at the Beau Rivage. A certain Mr. Kuo is in charge...
Says Beal: "I made it a point to visit the Beau Rivage Hotel as soon as possible. But there the certain Mr. Kuo said, 'I don't think I can find Wan Ping-nan...
...results last week astounded even Dumont Partisan Nan Kivell. By the time the show was three days old, 25 Dumonts had been sold for a total of ?12,000 ($33,600). Twelve more were reserved by buyers in what turned out to be one of the biggest stampedes for the works of an almost unknown artist London has ever seen. Among the customers: Actors Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir Ralph Richardson and Richard Attenborough, Collector Lord Ivor Churchill, and Ohio's Toledo Museum...