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...delegation. Beal had last dealt with Chou in Nanking in 1946. At the time. Beal was on a leave of absence from TIME to serve as an adviser to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek during the period of the Marshall mission. Beal got to know Chou well during his China stint. "It was there," says he, "that I learned what the Chinese Communists were like. Chou was my teacher. He was in Nanking heading the delegation negotiating with the Nationalist government, and his teaching was so thorough that later I was surprised by nothing that happened in Korea...
Before the McCarthy v. Army hearings, Jenkins' most important connection with the military was a stint in the Army on the Mexican border in 1916, another stint in the Navy during World War I. He thought about becoming a professional baseball pitcher (he had a wicked spit-ball), but he kept his eye on the law. Always a top scholar, he passed the bar examinations a year before he finished at the University of Tennessee's law school. One of his first jobs in a law office, like the assignment that brought him onto the national scene...
...guest stint with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony last week, Violinist Tossy Spivakovsky offered a careful balance: something old, something new. First he flooded the hall with the singing airs of Mozart's Adagio in E. Then, tucking his fiddle under his chin again and staring intently at his stubby fingers, he launched into the amiable and sometimes pyrotechnic moods of Gian-Carlo Menotti's two-year-old Violin Concerto. As always, his tone was luxuriant, his pitch impeccable, and he brought the music to full-blooded life. From Manhattan's experienced audience, the modern work drew...
...musical main stem. He was born in the Basque city of San Sebastian, and after studies in Paris became the youthful conductor of the Madrid Symphony (1940-45). In 1947 he moved to South Africa to be conductor of the Cape Town Orchestra. Except for a guest stint in Buenos Aires in 1944, San Francisco was his first stop in the Western Hemisphere...
...mystery to most mystery writers. But the border line between a good mystery and a good novel is occasionally crossed, and two new yarns get well over the border. In The Long Goodbye, Old Mystery Hand Raymond Chandler brings back his private eye, Philip Marlowe, for his first stint in more than four years. Casino Roy ale introduces a brand-new mystery writer, Briton Ian Fleming, and a hard-shelled British secret-service operative, James Bond, who should be prowling the international underground for some books to come...