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...South Africa's Chinese colony, 4,000 strong and as sober as Mandarin ducks, this was a matter of face. At the same time that he signed Swart's Chinese prohibition decree, Governor General Ernest George Jansen invited Shao Ting, 58, Nationalist China's Consul General in Johannesburg, to a United Nations ball. Under the decree, Shao or any other Chinese attending the event would not be able to get a drink. Shao refused to go. He wrote to the government protesting the "stigma of inferiority" implied in Swart's decree. After all, said Shao...
...which might be described as tree-tickling. Groucho takes excellent care of himself: he plays golf, never has more than two drinks at a party, and always leaves at midnight, even parties where he is the host. His only excess is cigars. One of his favorite occupations is sit ting for long hours in his den strumming Gilbert & Sullivan (at which he is an expert) on his guitar. He is also an expert on the novels of Henry James. Having had hardly any for mal education, Groucho, by dint of greedy reading, has made himself a well-read...
Last week, having cut half a dozen new kiddy classics (e.g., Santa Claus Is Coming to Town; Ting-a-Ling-a-Jingle) for the Christmas trade, friendly Frank Luther, 51, was warming up for a personal-appearance tour. He has a ready routine, stumbled on by accident on his first school tour five years...
...headquarters house, two blocks away. This headquarters, which stood between low hills on the outskirts of Kaesong, had been assigned and furnished by the Communists; the U.N. staff refurnished it with articles trucked up from Munsan. Outside the headquarters house was a stone tablet bearing the words Yung-ting Tai-meaning Everlasting Stability Terrace...
...Buddha Knows Best" is an epic of political intrigue in the jungles of Lower Cambodia. Gwynne will play a bone hunting explorer, with Benton cast opposite in the feminine lead as a Cambodian Dragon Lady, the "Princess Ting...