Word: nanning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moody, young (46) General Hu Tsung-nan was fond of taking lonely walks. Suddenly he would stop, beat his chest in Tarzan fashion, and howl to the heavens. Ex plained Hu : "Thus do I free myself of internal and external pressures." Friends urged him to take a wife. General Hu, short, sturdy watchdog of China's north west, shook his head. "I have a job to do," he said...
...fortnight ago, at Yenan, Nationalist General Hu Tsung-nan decided to beat the Communists to the punch. Two army divisions, under Generals Liu Kan and Yen Ming, marched south. West of Ichuan they met the Red force. Six hours later the Nationalists had suffered 20,000 casualties. Only 2,000 soldiers escaped. Both General Liu and General Yen lay dead...
...King Christian IX), they had met in London at the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Since then, for 28 days they had dallied in London and Lausanne under the sympathetic eye of Michael's Mama, Queen Helen, while Michael shyly pursued his quest. At 24, Nan, as her family calls her, is a gay, humorous girl who dislikes big social functions, wears flat heels, likes to mimic people. During the war's early years she had studied commercial art in New York, where her mother, Princess Margrethe of Bourbon-Parma and Denmark, clerked in a swank...
...though his courtship may have been plagued with political doubts, there was nothing doubtful about his parting embrace. When Nan held up her cheek he seized her fervidly, planted a lingering kiss which was repeated when she turned the other cheek. Less enthusiastic, Nan replied with a light brush of her lips on his jaw, and patted his shoulder. Then, his face frozen like that of a small boy who wants to weep but will not, he watched her climb into the train for Paris...
Lots of Mutton. The daughter of a rich Anglophile Brahmin lawyer, she was taken to England at five and entrusted to an English governess. Until her marriage at 21, she was called "Nan," acquired a pronounced English accent, ate typical English food like mutton, boiled cabbage and pudding; Indian food was served only on Sundays. But what really turned her against Britain was not mutton and boiled cabbage but the recurring jail sentences imposed on her late husband, Lawyer Ranjit Pandit, her brother Jawaharlal Nehru, and herself, for political activity. From 1931 to 1943 she was thrice jailed...