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Devotion to Mother. As a Navy commander in 1945, Scott was among the first Americans to enter Tokyo, later made several more trips to the Orient, finally realized that his real love was not Japanese art but its Chinese "mother." His devotion has never wav ered. "The Chinese art," he says tenderly, "is more sophisticated, more subtle." And in all of China's history, he adds, no period can equal "the lively T'ang Dynasty" (618 to 906), the "golden age" that he chronicles in his latest book...
...prop wash. In the four years after his marriage, he embarked on two world-swinging trips to explore aviation routes, the first across Canada and Alaska to Japan and China to dramatize the Great Circle course to the Far East (written up by Anne in North to the Orient), and the second across the North Atlantic to Europe and back across the South Atlantic (again recorded by Anne in Listen, the Wind!). The report he submitted to Pan Am embodied the same pragmatic realism he had shown in equipping the Spirit of St. Louis, and helped change the shape...
...Dependence. Britain wants to hold onto Hong Kong to protect its vast investments and to retain a Far Eastern headquarters for British banking and trade interests. It also does not know how it could gracefully withdraw from Hong Kong under the present circumstances without totally losing face in the Orient. In recent years, Red China has been building up its influence in the Crown Colony, and Britain has been too afraid of offending its overpowering neighbor to do anything about it. As a result, about one-fifth of the colony's Chinese, who make...
Findley -- representative from Abraham Lincoln's 20th District -- proposed an exchange of diplomatic, cultural, journalistic and tourist missions between "the two giant nations of Occident and Orient." But he asked for continued checks on Chinese "military or subversive threats and pressure...
...Hunt traveled to school in Tacoma, Wash., on his father's 120-ft. steamboat Atalanta, earned pocket money steam-cleaning the vessel's brass spittoons. He quit high school after two years, blitzed through an accounting course and shipped out aboard a steamship plying trade with the Orient, eventually earning a master mariner's rating. After working on a pineapple plantation in Hawaii, Hunt returned home at 20 and set up a brief partnership in a Puget Sound ferry service. In 1927, he bluffed his way into a clerk's job at the Zellerbach Paper...