Word: soochow
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...mortised miles of esplanade, built over the bodies of 300,000 serfs and some of the world's ruggedest mountain terrain, to no ultimate military purpose. On a windswept turret of the wall completed in 214 B.C., in a 500-year-old pavilion of the Forbidden City or Soochow's leaning Tiger Hill Pagoda (it has a 3¾° tilt), the visitor is not so much awed as numbed. Who were-and are - the people who could construct such fantasies? What else have they wrought? Are there other such marvels and monstrosities to be seen or expected...
...been known for 470 years as Leave Your Pleasure Garden-ever since the man who built it was summoned to high office in far-off Peking and, not being able to take his heart's delight with him, bequeathed it to the populace. The spectacular park in Soochow bears, after 41/2 centuries, the sardonic name of Humble Administrator's Garden; the grounds were constructed over 16 years by a corrupt official who was anything but hum ble. After his death it was gambled away by his son hi one night. A mountain on the Li River is called...
...Toll Bridge. One day I decided to repeat my old walk to work from the Broadway Mansions, renamed Shanghai Mansions, to my former office on the Bund. An unsmiling crowd of 200 or 300 fell in behind. We trekked over the Garden Bridge, now the "No-Toll Bridge." The Soochow Creek below smelled as bad as ever and was jammed with the same sampans that have been used to unload freighters ever since Shanghai was opened to foreign shipping in 1842 after the Opium...
Gymnastics at Dawn. Along with Bishop Walsh, 13 Chinese priests were sentenced in Shanghai to terms from five to 25 years. And there was one life sentence-for Bishop Ignatius Kung Ping-mei of Soochow. Slender, smiling Kung Ping-mei, 59, has all the qualifications to make himself hated by the Reds. Born to a wealthy Roman Catholic family in a small town near Shanghai, he studied for the priesthood in Shanghai's French Jesuit College at Zikawei, where he learned to speak perfect French and imperfect English and to understand Westerners. Father Kung specialized in education, showed notable...
...Hong Kong's Cafe de Chine, 500 guests sat down to a lavish celebration that included a 14-course dinner, scenes from Peking operas, Soochow poetry recitations, drinking and dancing. The host was Insurance Tycoon Cornelius Vander Starr, 67, and the occasion was the 40th anniversary of his insurance company, the largest independent international insurance agency in the world, with branches from Paris to Phnom Penh. Starr, who started his business in the Far East, could well afford the celebration. Last week his American International Insurance Corp. reported that in 1959 it collected $155 million in life and general...