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...other: Miss Butterfly Wu...
...Tech outfit was weak as a team, although there were a few individual stars. Haden, Wu, and Johnny Ewing were outstanding for the Engineers...
...lineups: HARVARD M.I.T. Penson, g. g., Herzog Ives, r.f. r.f., Loven Doughty, l.f. l.f., Sosa Rousmaniere, r.h.b. r.h.b., Van Sciver Edgar, c.h.b. c.h.b., Samuels d'Autremont, l.h.b. l.h.b., Estes Halstead, r.o. r.o., Wu Staber, r.i. r.i., Fonseca Murphy, c. c., Josefowitz Willetts, l.i. l.i., Macorra Page, l.o. l.o., Miller...
...young correspondents handed their visiting cards (bearing the Chinese version of their names: Au Dung and Y Hsiao Wu) to U.S. missionaries and British diplomats, who received them kindly. They interviewed General von Falkenhausen (Chiang Kai-shek's German adviser at that time), histrionic U.S. Red Writer Agnes Smedley (China Fights Back), who thought they might be fascist plotters because they talked with von Falkenhausen. Madame Chiang Kaishek, with whom the poets took tea, was "for all her artificiality a great heroic figure," but the Generalissimo was "bald" and "mild-looking." We laughed as we pictured Chiang, Madame...
...life as two old men gravely trying to put a rat in a bottle, a woman tirelessly pouring water through a sieve. More startling than anything they report about the East is what they report, often unconsciously, about themselves. Their own honest verdict on Au Dung and Y Hsiao Wu: ". . . though we wear out our shoes walking the slums, though we take notes, though we are genuinely shocked and indignant, [we] belong, unescapably, to the other world. We return, always, to Number One House for lunch...