Word: suchow
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...Sherman Suchow has undergone quite a transformation. Born in Brooklyn 59 years ago, he now calls himself Charles Merrill Mount, affects an English accent, carries a walking stick and sports classic three-piece suits. An art historian and portrait painter, Mount stands accused of pursuing a third career as well: pilferer of rare historical documents. Last week the FBI arrested him for possessing a 1904 letter signed by Novelist Henry James that had been missing from the Library of Congress. Five days earlier Mount had been charged with stealing letters written by Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill. Said Special...
...hoped-for visit with Mao Tse-tung did not materialize. There was plenty of sightseeing, however, much of it done by Kissinger's wife Nancy and his two teen-age children. On the final day of the visit, the entire party flew to the ancient garden city of Suchow, 600 miles south of Peking, where Kissinger was taken to a spot named, significantly, "the Garden of Foolish Politicians...
...goes about dressed in full bishop's regalia, including mitre. Ho's most recent refinement is to force valid bishops to consecrate Communist bishops, thereby attempting to maintain Roman Catholic validity. With liturgically correct bootleg rites, he has created ten "progressive" bishops, is planning consecrations for Nanking, Suchow and Hanchow, will soon appoint new bishops for Canton and Shanghai. When Bishop Li Tao-nan of Puichi was first ordered to consecrate bishops, he refused. But after two weeks of torture, he surrendered. Last April he officiated at the consecration of Tung Kwang-ching of Hankow and Yuan Wenhua...
...Inner Mongolia is General Ou Yu-san, former cavalry commander under ex-Nationalist General Fu Tso-yi, who went over to the Reds. In Yunan, along the Burma border, the guerrilla boss is General Li Mi, who commanded the Nationalist Thirteenth Army Group at the hard-fought battle of Suchow in November...
...Nothing Could Be Worse." On the battlefield of Suchow (TIME, Nov. 29, 1948), Reporter Doyle watched the Nationalist soldiers' dispirited attempt to beat back the Communists, and in besieged North China he talked to a group of miners whose conversation reflected the spirit of Nationalist China after a decade of war. Doyle, who could speak their own language, asked them if they would flee if the Communists came. "Flee?" asked one miner bitterly. "Flee where? To America?" Said another: "Nothing could be much worse than our life...