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...know why Fan was being so talkative. Fan was glad to explain. Last May, he found three Chinese WACs in the division to which he was assigned as "entertainment officer" (i.e., a job somewhere between U.S.O. director and political commissar). "One," he said, "was a beautiful young girl named Toy. We fell in love. It was not at all bad being so far away from home under those conditions. Then the division commander began to notice Toy...
After that, Fan and Toy seldom saw each other; the commander staggered their duty hours so that one was always on duty when the other was free. Fan stuck it as long as he could. "Finally," he said, "I decided to desert...
...Haydn's Toy Symphony is the work of J. G. Leopold Mozart (Wolfgang's father...
...Play Ball." Then Veeck fetched up a gag calculated to rouse angry mutterings throughout baseball's official hierarchy. Against the Detroit Tigers, Veeck led off his batting order with the strangest figure ever to wear a major-league uniform: brandishing a toy bat, a midget (3 ft. 7 in.) named Ed Gaedel stepped up to the plate. Before the Tigers could protest, Manager Taylor produced a bona fide contract, and the baffled umpire said, "Play ball." Tiger Pitcher Bob Cain, obviously afraid of hitting the batter with a fast pitch, admitted defeat by giving Gaedel an intentional walk* (Final...
...openhanded with his employees, pays them the highest factory wages in the Far East, knows as many as 2,000 by name. They get a free 100-lb. monthly ration of rice, free medical care, lifelong pensions, and have a commissary with the cheapest prices in Manila. When a toy shortage developed just before Christmas, Soriano dispatched a special P.A.L. plane to Hong Kong to pick up a load of toys for his employees' children...