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With smiling faces and with thankfulness in their hearts, foreign correspondents in Peiping threw a farewell party. Their guest of honor had made their lives miserable with his peculiar scoops. The peculiarity of his scoops lay in the fact that so many of them were phony. His imminent departure made...
Fat, flamboyant Reynolds Packard, 43, tossed off the vodka in, one neat kan pei (bottoms up). Then he made a speech, whose opening remark was directed at the editor of the Peiping Chronicle:
Removing so expensive an item as Reynolds Packard from the U.P. payroll called for more than a routine cable. U.P. president Hugh Baillie personally ordered Reynolds fired. Walter Rundle, China bureau chief at Shanghai, flew to Peiping to break the news. The U.P. was fed up with such Packard specials...
"Congratulations to you, the committee, and the University," wired the New York office to Campbell. The funds now on their way for Europe will be used for food purchases in Switzerland, said Campbell, while the money on route to Peiping, University will be administered by the national students fund from...
The chosen few will find that they are not traveling around the prewar world, nor in the prewar way. Passengers will not be encouraged to stay ashore overnight in the Orient. And no more can they stop over anywhere they like, catch the next ship that strikes their fancy. Out...