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The same study named Ely as the fourth most frequently cited American legal scholar of all time, trailing only Richard A. Posner, Ronald Dworkin and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Class of 1829.
Ernest Hemingway called her the "Empress of China." British novelist Christopher Isherwood found her "possessed of an almost terrifying charm and poise." Among those impressed by Madame Chiang Kai-shek's charms was the American politician Wendell Willkie, who lost the presidential race against Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940 but...
She promised China would reimburse the entire expenditure, presumably from U.S. loan funds sitting in the Nationalist regime's American bank accounts. "If Wendell could be elected, then he and I would rule the world," she went on, according to Cowles.
"I would rule the Orient, and Wendell would rule the Western world." It was, the publisher noted, a totally mad proposal. But, he added, "I was so mesmerized by clearly one of the most formidable women of the time that, this evening, I would not have dismissed anything she said...
Top gamer Jonathan (Fatal1ty) Wendell, 22, played baseball and football in high school but abandoned traditional athletics to play video games full time. He made more than $50,000 last year and has starred in his own MTV documentary. "I'm very fortunate," says Wendell. "It helps to have a...