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...comparison with Russian single-mindedness, the Chinese press has an almost democratic diversity and vivacity. No newspapers have been suppressed outright except the "mosquito" tabloids which before the war achieved a lewdness beyond description. Competing for readers in Chungking are 13 dailies, including the Communist paper, the "liberal" Ta Rung Pao, the Roman Catholic Social Welfare Daily (Yih Shih Pao), the racy evening tabloid, New People's Daily (Hsin Min Pao), and the official Kuomintang and Army sheet, Central Daily News (Chung Yang Jih Pao), which has a partly free circulation of 150,000-perhaps more than...
Kirkland had a flock of a good Sophomores and Freshmen, among them Billy Sparks and Charley Carson, and was just nosed out at the close by Leverett. Adams was in the running all the way, but just couldn't win enough games to get a glimpse of the top rung. Bill Wilcox was their outstanding player...
Surface & Depth. When news of his recall reached the White House, a hurried telephone call went to the little brick headquarters on Embassy Row-very nearly the first time the telephone had rung there in nine months. General Hsiung, finally, received an invitation to talk to Franklin Roosevelt. With his interpreter, Captain M. H. Robert Lee, he went to the White House, cooled his heels for a half hour, finally spoke to the President...
Campaigner. In Kansas City, Patrol man Mellvill Norton, campaigning for traffic safety, watched for jaywalkers on the street, rung their hands, warmly congratulated them on still being alive...
...actress does not belie the woman. Ruth Gordon has a sharp tongue in her head, no coy sweetness, no fake modesty. Told she stands on the theater's top rung, she retorts: "It's about time." Told that The Three Sisters will be a model for aspiring actresses, she snaps: "It should be." Asked to compare her acting with Cornell's and Anderson's, she counters: "Do you say that Renoir is two inches behind Manet, or Degas a foot ahead?" She snarls at Nature: "I don't care if a flower grows upside down...