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Above them all stood a tall, blond young man in a double-breasted tan gabardine suit. His handsome, strong-jawed face was drawn and his blue eyes glittered; for a few seconds he gnawed nervously on a thumbnail, and bright sweat covered his high forehead. He was speaking softly, but with an urgency that seemed to tense every muscle of his body...
...girl in a tan coat pointed out that unemployment is relatively low. "Whadya mean?" boomed the reply. "Why in advertising alone, you got thousands--millions o' guys doing nothin'--why that's the most useless job there is. And all these salesmen tramping the same street, selling the same damn thing on the same damn day. Why--." "But they're not unemployed, are they?" said the girl. "Gimme another question," said Trainor. The woman in the shawl scowled at the girl while Trainor was engrossed in the subtleties of another question. "It don't take an Einstein," he replied...
...York's Belmont Park, Belair Stud's big bay colt, Nashua, got a skillful hand ride from Jockey Eddie Arcaro, needed just one whack of the whip to hold off a determined last-furlong drive by Mrs. R. A. Firestone's Summer Tan and win the 65th running of the season's juvenile classic, the Futurity...
...Kong, succumb to the blandishments of the Communists and go off to school in Red China. The Communists offer them everything from free books to free clothes. "And so," says Lin, "parents never see their children again. It is very sad." Last year, under the leadership of Rubber Tycoon Tan Lark-sye and Lien Ying-chow, managing director of Singapore's Overseas Union Bank, the city's merchants and businessmen began raising money for a new university, decided on Lin Yutang as chancellor because of his international prestige. By last week, Nanyang University had 20 million Singapore dollars...
When Nanyang opens in the fall of 1955, it will have only three colleges: arts, science and business. But eventually, its founders hope it will be an intellectual center for all of free Southeast Asia. With a cosmopolitan faculty, Chancellor Lin and Sponsors Tan and Lien are agreed that the student body should be interracial. As such, they think, Nanyang may well become free China's academic frontier, the conserver of its culture, its link with the West. "I say this humbly," says Tan, "but into the diverse cultures of the South Seas - Burma, Thailand, IndoChina...