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...white-capped waters off Havana's Morro Castle, 28 Star Class yachts last week competed in the first big international regatta since 1939 - but the dip ping of sails and careening of tiny hulls drew no audience ashore. Sports-loving Cubans were mostly off at baseball games...
...suntanned to the right shade for her Indian role. From India she had returned with twelve saris (wraparound Hindu dresses), six of which Dressmaker Valentina wrapped into costumes for Lakmé. Sharing Lily's backstage dressing room were three long-haired Tibetan dogs named Wah-ping, Shun-lo and Gobi (who recently made an appearance with Lotte Lehmann in a San Francisco performance of Der Rosenkavalier). Pons was not disturbed when critics panned Lakmé. Said she: "Is bad taste to beat Lakmé. If I sing Lakmé . . . the public is crazy to hear me. Is more...
Pocket contents: one reporter's notebook; one address book; one batch name cards, minus which it is almost impossible to do business in China (front of card bears my name in English; reverse side has the Chinese translation, Go Ho Ping, meaning Hope For Peace, which causes many high & low folk to remark: "Very nice name"); one pen, one pencil, one penknife, one passport, two car keys; one inoculation certificate showing 14 original shots plus regular boosters, minus which air travel is taboo; one Chinese Government certificate of registration as a correspondent; about 30,000 dollars Chinese, which...
...Newcomers. Not Chou En-lai but two lesser Communists, Wang Ping-nan and Liao" Cheng-chi, publicly made the secession threat. Both came some months ago from Chungking to Nanking, where they have been relatively obscure members of the Communist delegation. Wang is solemn, homely, rather likable. He is direct, clipped in speech, and generally uses an interpreter though he understands English well. His wife is a Polish Communist, who is said to have strong influence over him. Liao also speaks excellent English, out of the corner of his mouth. The emergence of Wang and Liao, like the emergence...
International Ping-pong. Though language barriers tended to keep the Russians to themselves, the more serious-minded comrades played chess with the more serious-minded Americans and Britons; the less serious-minded joined in nightly howling at the bar or entered Ping-pong games involving ten nationalities and scoring in four languages. Even when the British playfully threw glasses of beer at the Russians from the top of a staircase, there was no international crisis. Things were less friendly in the villa, where the women of the press corps were quartered. There American newshens accused both French and Russian ladies...