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...Truman Capote's long-unfinished Answered Prayers ("He thought about the smooth leather of the banquettes under his rear end and how he would look out and think about his enemies"). Fugitive Abbie Hoffman mailed in word of the Checker Cab Co.'s new nonpolluting taxi: a rickshaw pulled by a jogger and known as the Chinese Checker...
Among the most gifted of the newly rehabilitated writers is Lao She, a chronicler of pre-Communist China's lower classes who is best known in the West for his 1936 novel Rickshaw Boy. During the Cultural Revolution, Lao came under ferocious attack by the fanatical Red Guards. After a dutiful attempt to write proletarian poetry in accord with the party line of that chaotic period, Lao She told his wife he was leaving home in search of "a peaceful place." He walked to the nearby T'ai-p'ing (Great Peace) Lake in Peking, where...
...Chinese court and re-emerged with fact. With his high connections, his gift for languages, and his eccentric lifestyle, Sir Edmund Backhouse was one of the most fascinating characters then inhabiting the city. Even his attempts at self-effacement attracted attention--riding through the city in his rickshaw, a fan held before him, Chinese-fashion, to hide his face, this strange Westerner in Eastern garb drew many stares...
When not swinging the sledge, Loeb and the Union Leader can be downright cute in their way. After the announcement of Nixon's Peking trip, Loeb invited readers to rename the President's plane. Suggestions included go Mao, Pay Later and DingALing Dickie's Rickety Red Rickshaw. Loeb finally selected Freedom's Futile Flight. But fun and games are not restricted to presidential politics. When Loeb's choice for Governor was defeated in 1970 the Union Leader ran the names of some 15,000 registered Manchester-area voters who had not turned out. The implication...
...winner was bland enough: Freedom's Futile Flight. A few of the other, somewhat more imaginative entries: Red Airing (second prize), Ping Pong Express, Tricky Dickie's Chicken Ship, Neville Chamberlain Express, Yellow Bird, Judas Jet, Air Farce One, Asian Flew, DingALing Dickie's Rickety Red Rickshaw and Go Mao, Pay Later...