Word: tais
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nanking that he has the name of a veteran missionary in Kuling, China's cool summer capital, who may be able to find a cottage for him there, and Shanghai Bureau Chief William Gray has his eye on a small hotel on an island off Wusih in Lake Tai Hu, northwest of Shanghai. "Wusih," says Gray, "is a sort of Chinese Venice, where you travel mostly by motor houseboat, a top-heavy but pleasant craft with attendants who serve tea and Chinese chow at thoughtful intervals...
Died. Abbot Tai Hsu, 57, head of the China Buddhist Association, president of the International Buddhist Institute, friend of Methodist Chiang Kaishek; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Shanghai...
...tiny, sun-warmed island in Wusih's Lake Tai Hu, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek celebrated his 60th birthday with his wife and friends. He said it was the happiest day he had spent in ten years, unmarred even by the clatter and stink of the small steamboat originally chartered to pull the picnic barge to the island...
Pattern of Joy. But the drowsy peace of Lake Tai Hu was not duplicated everywhere in China-nor was the engine the only Western device to be scrapped. In Nanking, qualified observers agreed that the last forlorn hope for successful U.S. mediation between Nationalist and Communist forces had all but vanished. On the northern shore of Shantung peninsula, rifles sang and mortars whispered as Nationalist troops besieged Communist Chefoo. Across the Yellow Sea in Manchuria, Lieut. General Tu Li-ming's Government armies were clearing out the peninsula south of captured Antung, preparing for the climactic drive on Harbin...
Madame Quo Tai-chi of China, who (like all the U.N. delegates' wives in Manhattan) had been sent a basket of wine (four bottles) by a California vintner, responded with a womanly international gesture. To the pilot who had flown the wine from the Cresta Blanca vineyards she dictated her recipe for Chinese Burgundy: beaten whites two eggs, one pint Burgundy, dash vanilla extract, dash orange bitters; stir in the whites slowly...