Word: shanghai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...international editions; of heart disease; in Manhattan's New York Hospital. A Washington-born Northwesterner, Gray started his journalistic career on West Coast newspapers, signed on in 1942 as a Time Inc. correspondent mainly covering the Pacific war on its battlegrounds, stayed overseas after V-J day as Shanghai bureau chief, reporting the collapse of the Nationalist Chinese; returning home, he was appointed editor in 1950 of LIFE'S fortnightly edition sent abroad, a post in which he helped launch LIFE EN ESPAÑOL and last year the Italian-language monthly PANORAMA, sponsored jointly by Time...
While the Chinese Communist Central Committee, presided over by a plump and healthy-looking Mao, 68, was meeting in Peking, Hartini was taking in the sights of Nanking and Shanghai. At banquets and parades, the little-known Peking matrons plainly competed with her for attention. Had a clever government agent wanted a gimmick to divert attention from Red China's woeful economic failures, he could scarcely have dreamed up a better one. Mao's wife is a slender, handsome woman of about 45 who once acted in Chinese movies under the name Lan Pin, now calls herself Chiang...
Last March, when the U.S. slapped drastic new quotas on its imports of cotton textiles. Hong Kong's burgeoning textile industry suffered a severe case of the shudders. Among the hardest hit was C.C. (for Chen Che) Lee, 51, the shrewd, Shanghai-born entrepreneur who built Hong Kong's first postwar textile mill. As the Crown Colony's biggest producer of finished cotton garments. Lee had been selling up to a million dollars' worth of garments a month in the U.S. Lee had to do something fast or his profit margin would be wiped...
After three years, says Williams, "I guess I willed myself into a nervous breakdown." Recuperating with his grandparents in Memphis that summer, he wrote his first play: Cairo! Shanghai! Bombay!, about two sailors who pick up a couple of girls. He had never seen a sailor. In the next few years, returning to St. Louis, he churned out scripts about miners (unseen), munitions makers (unseen), prison convicts roasted alive (unseen) and a flophouse (visited). A quasi-bohemian theater group called the Mummers staged them...
Independence of mind and forthright expression marked the course of his life. Born in Shanghai, his father was a geographer, his mother an illiterate peasant (who chose his wife for him when he was eleven). Hu Shih was an intellectual prodigy, won a Boxer Indemnity scholarship to Cornell (where he was called "Doc"). He went on to study at Columbia under the pragmatic philosopher John Dewey and became one of his outstanding disciples. Hu Shih once said that philosophy was his profession, literature his entertainment, politics his obligation. Literature was much more than just enjoyment: on his return to China...