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...eminent Oriental scholar and art historian, Warner has traveled extensively in the East on expeditions for the University, the Smithsonian Institute and Boston Museum of Fine Arts. His most recent trip was in 1938 when, as head of the San Francisco Exposition's Pacific arts exhibit, he traveled over much of the Orient collecting objects of art which were to be loaned to the exposition...
...Filipinos in happier days, the Government-owned Manila Hotel had been something-something more than a big, square, sturdy building, usually brimming with Americans and noisy with their doings. To Manilans it was the "Grand Hotel of the Orient" and they were proud of it as a symbol of Manila's progress. Its penthouse was the residence of General Douglas MacArthur and a floor or two below, in an apartment overlooking the harbor, lived Admiral Tommy Hart, commander of the U.S. Asiatic fleet...
...Every nation, small or great ... or incorporated against its will into the structure of another state, should be free in its inner life. . . . [We declare] annulled all the ... treaties by which the Tsar's Government together with its allies, through force and corruption, enslaved the peoples of the Orient, and especially the Chinese nation, in order to profit the Russian capitalists, the Russian landlords and the Russian generals...
Eisen left vaudeville to become a Brooklyn chiropractor, and Kaye joined a traveling vaudeville troupe, went to the Orient where, acting in front of non-English audiences, he was forced to master the high art of pantomime...
...watches delicate operations in Manhattan or Hollywood hospitals. For more active relaxation, he plays golf (in the low 80s) or travels with the Brooklyn Dodgers. A close friend of Leo Durocher, the Bums' manager, he was the Lip's battery mate on a U.S.O. tour to the Orient. Periodically, Kaye frets about his health-which is phenomenally good-and gulps vitamins galore or retreats to an upstate New York health farm, where he hikes ten miles before breakfast...