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...from Peiping flew a bevy of crack Central Government troubleshooters. One of them was affable General Tu Liming, Chungking's military commander for the Northeast. Another was Russian-speaking Chiang Ching-kuo, Chiang Kai-shek's elder son, who has a Russian wife and used to be at odds with his father, but is now one of the National Government's up-&-coming younger men and the Foreign Affairs Commissioner for the Northeast. A third was liberal Chang Kia-ngau, a Shanghai banker and ex-Minister of Communications, who has become one of the Generalissimo...
Cried Paris' famed funny sheet Canard Enchaêné: French lovers of the grape, beware! The Government plans "wine control!" Serious papers paid no attention. Frenchmen growled: Tu parles! (No kidding...
...daughters, was put in charge of the granary of Baron Chi of Lu, became superintendent of herds and parks and at 22 began teaching philosophy and history. The sparse facts of his career form a clear pattern climaxing in his brief period of power as chief magistrate of Chung-tu when he was 52 and when, so potent was his example that "he was the idol of the people and flew in songs through their mouths." When Confucius became Chief Minister to Duke Ting of Lu, his theory of government was applied on a large scale-perhaps to discredit...
When Dr. Howard A. Rusk got into the Army, he was appalled to see hospital convalescents lolling around with nothing to do. So the tall, good-looking Lieutenant Colonel, who used tu practice in St. Louis, teach at Washington University Medical School, got permission from his superiors to start a little recreation and reconditioning program for convalescents at Jefferson Barracks, Mo. He provided exercises graduated according to the sick soldiers' ability, and courses such as camouflage, airplane-model building, mathematics and (for illiterates) handwriting...
...thing even E tu Destino could not explain-the sense of loss that brooded above Mount Allegro, the feeling of being strange and alien in a strangely alien land. At school the second generation were told that if they were born here they were American, but "then one day one of your new teachers looked at you brightly and said you were Italian because your last name was Amoroso and that too was puzzling." You talked it over with your father but he wasn't very helpful. "Your children will be Americani, but you, my son, are half...