Word: plums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Mrs. Ruth Li of Singapore had her first baby, a girl, she named the infant Patsy Li (from Pai-ti Li, which is Chinese for "White Plum Blossom"). Patsy was six and had a younger sister, Lottie, when the Japanese attacked Malaya. Mrs. Li escaped from Singapore with her two children aboard a ship. At sea, the ship was torpedoed and sunk by the Japs...
...Chinese girl who had been bruised and slashed by Jap soldiers. They turned her over to a U.S. Marine outfit, who handed her to their chaplain, Father Gehring. Although Father Gehring spoke eight Chinese dialects, he could not get the child to talk. He decided to name her "White Plum Blossom" and so called her Patsy...
John Jacob Astor III, 34, plum-shaped posthumous son of the Colonel* and half-brother of Vincent, was having a time with the Manhattan newspapers. They were breaking out all over with photos of a symmetrical 18-year-old girl in suburban Philadelphia, and stuff about her heartbreak. The girl, Virginia Jacobs, called him "Jackims." He was supposed to have had her on the qui vive since she was 15, but now she could not find him. She said he had talked of marrying her and "going to Paris, where we'd have lots of children" -that...
...American Tobacco's account as No. 1 on his popularity Hit Parade, one R.&R. executive said: "We have not had more trouble than you would expect from an exacting client." An underling at F.C.&B. was blunter. Asked if it was true that the $3,000,000 plum had indeed dropped into F.C.&B.'s lap, the employe sighed: '"Yes, too true...
...reserve. When the yacht tied up at the Quonset (R.I.) Naval Air Base, he broke out a cap which made shoreside loiterers blink-a white creation with a wide bill and a billowy crown which flopped like a tam-o'-shanter. Thus arrayed he was driven to the Plum Beach home of his new naval aide, Captain James H. Foskett, where he contentedly attacked a heaping dinner of ham and chicken...