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...stocks), his fine Greek cigarets, the quantities of boiling Turkish coffee he consumed. He rode majestically through London's streets in a Rolls-Royce provided by the British Government. Finally, again by air, he had flown off to Paris and a royal Gallic welcome. Then, tired and rather wan, he had once more stepped into a plane and returned to Athens and his troubled people...
...side of his Cadillac sedan. They crawled through police lines, hung from balconies, yelled from rooftops, held their children high to see the sight. Slowly the Generalissimo, now smiling happily, passed through the wave of jubilation. Hands were thrust in victory salutes as the people shouted: "Chiang . . . Chung kuo . . . wan sui . . . wan wan sui!-Chiang . . . China . . . live ten thousand years . . . live ten thousand ten thousand years...
Died. Dr. John Calvin Ferguson, 79, longtime adviser to Chinese governments, founder and first president of Nanking University, ex-president of Nanyang College (now National Ch'iao Tung University), onetime Shanghai newspaper publisher (Sin Wan Pao, Shanghai Times), Chinese art authority; in Clifton Springs, N.Y., 20 months after his repatriation from Jap internment at Peiping...
...Wan, talkative Artie Greengroin was part of a period which is fast slipping into history. He lived, in the words of his 28-year-old creator, Private Harry Brown, "in the grimly fabulous time when we were building up our military strength in Britain in preparation for the invasion of Europe . . . a time of enforced inactivity . . . in which the average American soldier . . . was alternately bored, astonished, delighted, and depressed by what he saw about him." In a long-running series for the British edition of Yank, Artie became about the best-known U.S. enlisted man in what he called...
Tradition was invoked. Said Hsin Ming Wan Pao: In the old days when sedan chairs met on a path, the coolies shouted: "Yu pien chou!-Keep to the right!" In Manchu days, Shih Chieh Jih Pao noted, all officials entered the Imperial court on the right-hand side. Said the official Chung Yang Jih Pao: "Keeping to the left is not our ancient system. ... In the old Chinese dictionary . . . right meant high, good, strength. . . . The right occupation is the high occupation, the right party is the government party. Left means inconvenience, unrighteousness, debasement; the left way means the evil...