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...there was still a question: How to get out of Tihwa? The Chinese Communist armies were pressing close. Chinese air service to Canton had been cut, and U.S. planes were barred from the province by a Sino-Russian treaty. Old China Hand Paxton, who had come to the Orient first with his missionary parents at the age of two, called his staff together for a conference. They decided to trek out of embattled Tihwa by truck and jeep, over the age-old route across the mighty Himalayas to India...
...said, but vaguely seen and known. Now, after two years as Prime Minister of free India, he is emerging in sharp and colorful detail. The cultured patriot with the Cambridge accent, luminous eyes and magnetic smile who spent 13 of his 60 years in British jails has become the Orient's unoriental, supercharged public executive...
When slim, brown-haired Martha Lucas took over the presidency of Virginia's Sweet Briar College for women in 1946, she announced that she would "promote world awareness in every possible way." She planned new instruction "on the Orient, Russia, South America," a broad curriculum which would include "the intellectual experience of the whole of mankind." Sweet Briar soon learned that President Lucas was a woman deeply concerned about the world...
...stayed out in the Orient for five years, taking in both China and the Philippines. In between tobacco deals, he found the East had developed considerable interest in basketball. Shepard played a little himself to keep his hand in, and in 1926 he took out enough time from weed-peddling to coach the Chinese Olympic basketball squad...
...coach is also pretty proud of his executive officer. Shepard's assistant is a tall blond Dartmouth man called Floyd Wilson, who also has served a stretch in the Orient. He played basketball for Marine teams in China in 1945. His present job is to break Shepard into the intricacies of Eastern intercollegiate League Ball; in about two weeks Wilson will take over the freshman team. Shepard says "I needed someone who had played the northeastern circuit...