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The cultured, well-to-do Wang family of Peiping named their daughter Ta-jun ("All Gracious"). When, aged 11 and just out of elementary school, the child was found to be dangerously tuberculous, they put her in the care of the Sisters of St. Michael's Hospital. Ta-jun...
Many thanks for news of my nephew, Hewitt Frenyear Mitchell, airmail pilot, Shanghai to Peiping, who shared with a news correspondent a diplomatic resistance to Japanese searchers of his plane [TIME, Dec. 9]. Will you now give his correct name, and perhaps a few other facts? Born of New England...
Lieut. Mitchell, after a year on the Shanghai-Peiping run. was sent inland to develop the Chungking-Chengtu route. Diary notes, written on back of weather reports, describe a primitive area where transportation has jumped from sedan chairs and wheelbarrows to airplanes. His passengers were Chinese merchants and military men...
U. S. funds support Peiping's famed Yenching University but its chancellor is a Chinese of wisdom, Luh Chai-wei. "If this goes on," he said, "I believe we will have to close Yenching. If the students demonstrate again in Peiping, I fear the police will shoot into their...