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...FOREIGNERS-Preston Schoyer-Dodd, Mead...
...Author Schoyer's foreground is an international settlement -an assortment of the people whom the Chinese call Big Noses-foreign missionaries, doctors, teachers and their families, in a city in Central China. For the first 300 pages they are absorbed in fighting about the erection of a monument to a presumably martyred missionary-a monument which will be dangerously insulting to the Chinese. For the next 300 pages they are engulfed in broader troubles-the Japanese invasion. By the end of the book their city is in ruins...
...Author Schoyer knows China and the Chinese about as well as any sympathetic foreigner can. When he is writing what he knows, he writes very well indeed-of the smells of fish and cinnamon in China's streets; of China's unfathomable deviousness and talent for compromise; of her cheerfulness, unpredictability, boundless vitality and courage. Samples...
...runner-up in the vote for the Class Day Committee was Robert E. Strider, having 186. Others on the ballot were: Hughes Call, 163; John M. Johansen, 158; Bruce Foster, 149; William W. Austin, 136; Edward H. Schoyer, 102; Samuel L. M. Cole, 102; Philip H. Walker, 97; Hunter Hendee, 74; Frank Dunn, Jr. 73. Election Results Secretary Cleveland Amory 151 Robert M. Bunker 142 Richard S. Benner 90 Charles A. Meyer 58 Class Day Committee Clifford W. Wilson 332 Richard P. Hedblom 250 Oliver P. Bolton 248 Edmund L. Cherbonnier 248 Joseph A. Patrick 240 J. Spence Harvin...
...Edward H. Schoyer...