Word: personal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formal occasions, when many guests are invited to Chiang's household, Chen almost never appears. Yet with probably no other person, not excepting Madame Chiang, does the Generalissimo spend more of his waking hours. In Chungking days, the two would cross the Yangtze together to the presidential home high above the south bank. Watchers would see two silent figures in the Gimo's power launch -Chiang in unadorned uniform, Chen in mandarin gown, reading each other's thoughts, rarely uttering a word...
Readers with even a 20-watt memory ought to recognize this old eye-popper. Some may recall it as a favorite parlor puzzle a decade or two ago. The late Alexander Woollcott published a breathless version in which the missing person is an elderly woman; in Mrs. Belloc Lowndes' The End of Her Honeymoon (1914) it is a young husband. All are variations on the same theme: a victim vanishes, leaving no sign of his existence; in feverish haste his hotel room is refurnished, repapered or walled off. The hotelkeeper (sometimes it is the police) has reason to dispose...
What mankind needs, declared everready Anthropologist Earnest A. Hooton, is "a science . . . that will teach each person . . . how to behave like a human being." He found cause for worry in an educational system that "offers the stu dent opportunities to learn about practically everything except himself...
...nearly done now, though. We thought we'd never get started this year what with all the rain." The only emotional uplift McTernan gets out of serving 311 years of tradition, according to his own account, is wondering what famous person will be up front on Com- mencement...
...first Varsity run had crossed the plate in the second inning in the person of Bill Barron, who scooted home from second on Wallace's single to right. Lunder, on base by virtue of a Princeton shortstop's error, took third on the hit and scored when the shortstop muffed Jack Forte's easy grounder...