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Bruce C. Hopper, associate professor of Government, in an address preceding the launching, related some of his experiences while traveling from Shangri-La to Shanghai down the Yangtze River...
...American team sparked by Senator Reynolds should be permitted to pull in the welcome must of Ellis Island. Not even the selfish arguments for walking out Europe's outcasts bold good. In a world of destruction and despair the United States since its founding has been humanity's Shangri-la. There is still no valid cause for bolting shut its golden gate...
Light story and light co-star notwithstanding, Ronald Colman manages to get in his familiar heroic touch. Whether is Shangri-La or Greenwich Village, he remains always the debonair adventurer with poetry in his words and visions in his eyes. "Lucky Partners" isn't one of his epics, but it does reach a decent level...
...entire U. S. there would seem no spot less disturbed by World War II, no site better fitted for a Shangri-La, if one could be found anywhere, than the high, autumnal fortress of Rocky Mountain Park. And if there was one U. S. citizen who seemed entitled to meditate on the mountains, undisturbed by the war, it was the genial, autumnal William Allen White, 72, editor of the Emporia Gazette for 45 years, onetime novelist, commentator, amateur politician but now chairman of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies...
...Canadian-born Explorer Kaulback, Tibet is no hermit kingdom, but a realistic Shangri-La whose glacial rocks, shrewd lamas, innumerable prayer-wheels, odoriferous grime somehow delight his Cambridge-bred soul. He had been to Tibet once before and was glad to get back: "It was good to taste real buttered tea again. ... We ourselves were awash by the time the tents were up. ... That night it was just as it had been two years before. . . horsebells jingling; the howl of a dog; a voice in the distance singing a mournful song; and over everything the smell of wood smoke...