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Fisher started making a career out of the Orient right after leaving Yale, set out for the South Seas as a student ethnologist. For months he lived with Fatoia Tufele, king of a group of islands near Pago-Pago-and he still talks about the two beautiful damsels Fatoia provided to fan him as he sat dining on the hot porch of the king's palace. After that he went to Fiji, Tonga. British Samoa and on to China, where he worked three years on the China Press and the Shanghai Times-did special pieces for Reuters...
...remarked: "Looking forward to eating wheat bread, cheese, ice cream, steaks again, but don't really miss them. . . . My health is as good or better than it ever was." He swore: "We never feel cooped up.'' Everything considered, said Halsema, Camp Holmes deserved the label: "The Orient's finest concentration camp." It sounded fine...
...itself once a frontier, now has frontiers of its own, on the Yangtze and on the Potomac. It does not aspire to displace the East industrially. What it wants is to develop a great home market for its industries, and to trade greatly with British Columbia, Alaska and the Orient-especially with new China. To banish its postwar nightmares, to achieve its postwar dreams, it feels that it must continue its fight for States' Rights under Warren and other governors but must also have far more representation in Washington, D.C. than it has ever had before...
...first reimbursement the Service has made for hospitalization in the Orient. The Service, now well out of its lean years, almost foundered in the mid-'30s, when it had no safeguards against families which joined just in time for Mamma to have a baby. The New York A.H.S. has since picked up a neat $8,000,000 surplus, gradually adding new benefits (e.g., paying for all drugs) for its 1,450,000 subscribers. The Service now pays a hospital bill every four minutes...
...teacher who meant so much to the Orient has been misrepresented, parodied and neglected by the part of the West that most needed his teachings. Occidental understanding of Confucius, difficult to come by in any edition, gains in the Modern Library's reprint, as a handsome gift book, of Dr. Lin Yutang's selection of Confucian sayings (The Wisdom of Confucius...