Word: shang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week 15 newly acquired Shang bronzes went on view in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. One of the cups had a tripod base which seemed to stand on tiptoe, and a lid in the shape of a swallow with outstretched wings and tail (see cut). The ambition to drink from the wings of a flying swallow might well have cost someone a kingdom...
...official title: American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas). Last week, waiting in Washington, Jayne had his worries. About Peking: "I hope [the Japs] treat it like Paris." About the temples and museum in Honan Province: what of the priceless, encrusted Shang and Chou bronzes? As for Japan: "There is some wonderful old wooden architecture there...
...boys, Walker, Woodin, Wilcox, Wood, et al., minus "Suave Sue" Wolf, raided Beantown's late nests Saturday till their collective hearts with content, but could find nothing to "the Shang"--not a paid advertisement...
Buggsie Siegal's roommate, one S. B. Siskind, reports that one glance into the "Shang" on Saturday eve was enough to convince him that "Dream Boat Bill" Walker, Tommy "The Cavalier" Wilcox, and "Sad Sam" Wolfe were falling into bad hands...
Window on a Nightmare. From 1937 to 1941, Editor Gayn's window in Shang hai's International Settlement looked out on some of the most terrible nightmares of the contemporary world - the Japanese attacks. "In the months and years which followed the rape of Nanking, ten million Chinese had been killed, fifty million driven west, more than a hundred put in subjection under puppet regimes. . . . For endless miles [Shanghai's] sidewalks be came the bedroom of a million refugees." A "baby patrol" went the rounds each morning, piling up mounds of dead children "like stacks of firewood...