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...plenty of good peanuts, And giveth his neighbor none, He shan't have any of my peanuts When his peanuts are gone. . . . Ok, won't that be joyful, joyful, joyful, Oh, that will be joyful, when his peanuts are gone. There were many variations on the same theme, e.g.: When his John Wanamaker's endurable, reversible, sit-on-'em and mash 'em, patent restorable, operatic plug hats are gone...
...victor of Tatung was General Fu Tso-yi, 51, governor of Suiyuan since 1931, Confucian protege of old Shansi "Model Governor" Yen Hsi-shan, and known in Kuomintang China as an able, honest, austere soldier. In the hour of victory General Fu took up his brush and addressed a plea to Communist Party chairman Mao Tse-tung: "The battle has taken the lives of at least 20,000 of your troops. We have buried them and wept over them. How sorrowful was the picture as they fled in fright, bleeding and falling by the roadside. I could not but press...
...their presence." Forever China is a literary adventure and discovery. It sometimes suffers from, overwriting and hyperbole. But these are minor flaws among the major pleasures of a superior book. There is a good sample of the Payne style in his evaluation of the bygone Chinese warrior-poet Shen Shan...
...Burrows' sal ary jumps from $832 as a railway checker to $36,000 a year, and up to $176,040 in allowances. He leaves his six-room Herefordshire cottage for a palace in Calcutta. He and his wife took the news in stride. Said Dora Beatrice Burrows: "We shan't be any different. We are working people and always will be. I'll try to do everything I am expected to do. I need more coupons for dresses, though...
...talks were going on in Chungking, saw plenty of fighting between the Nationalists and Communists. The Communists made bitter and partly successful efforts to seize North China and wreck the Nationalist chance of successful occupation. A fortnight ago in northwest Shansi, bailiwick of aging "Model Governor" Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, a Communist concentration ambushed 10,000 of Marshal Yen's troops, and killed several thousand of them before they could be extricated. Hundreds of miles farther north, many a day's march beyond the scene of Marshal Yen's trouble, in Suiyuan Province, a large force under...