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Hello, Shanghai. After a lapse of nearly ten years, the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. resumed telephone service between the U.S. and China ($12 plus tax for three minutes). One of the first commercial calls from the U.S. rang the phone of Woo Kyatang, executive editor of the Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury. "Hello, darling!" said a feminine voice from Washington, "How are you, dear?" When puzzled Woo failed to respond, the voice went on: "This is Dorothy, darling. How are you? . . . Isn't this Bill?" No, said Editor Woo, wrong number...
...great chance to capture mass support tomorrow by the means it devises to implement its ideals. From the current program embracing labor rights, federal aid to education, civil liberties, and universal military training two sorts of approach can develop: the agitation tactic which alienates the men it should most woo simply because of what it is (making smalltime political capital from colossal issues) or the militant but intelligent approach which seeks to offer something concrete to the solution of actual problems. Choosing the latter will spell a busy and worthwhile career. By fostering a progressive attitude on separate college campuses...
...victims are stupid, wealthy women. His difficult task is to woo them, marry them, pry their money loose, murder them, dispose of the corpses, and invest his take. He is exceedingly hardworking, skillful and, in his way, ethical at his job; he takes the least possible emotional advantage of his victims, and he is careful to kill them painlessly...
...Much. For the most part, stick-in-the-mud railmen were counting on ICC to do this for them by boosting passenger rates-a dubious solution, because higher rates would probably mean a still smaller volume. A more likely solution was to woo passengers away from planes, buses, autos...
...captured Jap strongholds in the Pacific, War Correspondent Kent Wood found faded pin-up pictures of an almond-eyed cinema star (who looked a lot like Movie Actress Yetkiko Todoroki, good friend of the author). Later, in Tokyo, they met and fell in love. But they had to woo in secret, for her studio forbade fraternization. When another correspondent was murdered by a former Nazi spy, Hero Kent Wood was suspect. His girl friend tossed away her chance for a big role by confessing that she was with him at the time of the murder. She was fired, married...