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...Road. The Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang entered almost unnoticed by a side door. But among the drably clad provincials were some colorful figures: a Tibetan delegate, in bright-hued robes; the towering Catholic prelate, Archbishop Paul Yu-pin; little, rotund Publisher Hu Lin of China's foremost paper, Ta Rung Pao; brisk Premier T. V. Soong; and chubby Dr. Sun Fo, son of the Republic's founder, Sun Yatsen. The Communists were missing...
...want a musician to beat on a drum, Or a trumpet ta toot, or a banjo to strum, You can't do a single thing 'til you hear from Petrillo. Petrillo. Petrillo...
...Chiang he saw on Kuling's main street a large poster-portrait of himself, subscribed: "Welcome General Marshall, Most Honored Angel of Peace." That night in Chiang's guest cottage, General Marshall slept in a bed seven feet long and five feet wide. The Kuling correspondent of Ta Rung Pao, Shanghai's independent newspaper, reported this fact to his readers, then asked: "Why is the bed so wide?" The correspondent supplied his own answer: "It's hard to be a mediator -he's expected to spend sleepless nights tossing about...
...Faun. Koussevitzky observed: "Maybe fine conductor for Brazilian music but he needs to be teached to change approach for European music." In Tanglewood's garage, a 40-member four-part chorus, struggling through a Hindemith chanson, was having soprano trouble. Conductor Robert Shaw pleaded: "No, girls, Wa ta is so wrong. Listen to the way the tenors do it ... I want just a great big C sharp...
Thoughtful Chinese on the mainland began to agree with the Formosans. Said Ta Rung Pao, China's counterpart of the New York Times: "Fundamentally speaking, China was not qualified to take over . . . she lacks the men . . . technique . . . commodities . . . capital. She governs, but is inefficient. She takes, but she does not give. This is the government's shame...