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...cameramen were chased in a car at 60 m.p.h. and took refuge in the Melvindale police station where they were followed by three men who identified themselves as Ford service men. The pictures showed that Frankensteen & friends were given no amateur beating but a standard job of mauling including wen known gorilla tricks. One of the pictures disclosed a pair of handcuffs in the pocket of an attacker (see cut) and from the photographs it seemed likely that the Ford men would be identified. It looked very much as if that brutal beating might hurt Henry Ford as much...
...Sian, also bystanders, had been "exe-cuted in and around Sian during the purge which followed the coup." A further and persistent report was that the Dictator, while technically the prisoner of kidnappers, had held long and earnest parleys in Sian with the celebrated Chinese Communist, General Cho Wen-lai, "Chairman of the Military Affairs Commission of the Chinese Communist Armies...
...pride of modern-style, foreign-educated Chinese to be "just like Americans" in using initials. Mr. Soong (Harvard, 1915), if he wrote his name the old-fashioned Chinese way, would be Soong Tse-wen, but he chooses to be T. V. Soong, and never in any circumstances Tse-wen Soong. This last would give any Chinese the jitters and is not only incorrect but "impossible"-like speaking of Roosevelt Frank-lin Delano. Mr. Soong's brother-in-law, Dr. H. H. Kung, was originally Kung Hsiang-hsi, therefore took the initials...
...emphasized her "spasms of coughing." The New York Times's, W. F. Leysmith cabled: "Frequently her tongue moved rapidly in nervous movements from cheek to cheek. She looked to one seeing her for the first time like a middle-aged woman of the upper classes. She has a wen on the right side of her chin. She told a most ordinary story...
...Donaghy, Junior Varsity coach, started on the mound for the Alumni and was touched for three runs n four innings. Mal McTernen, George Tittmann, and Paul Connolly singled successively in the second and subsequently scored two while the graduates were tossing out the side. In the fourth Connolly tallied wen Braman Gibbs backed up his base on balls with a double to center...