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Thank you for the bit about Misty Malarky Ying Yang [Feb. 28]. After a long and virtually uninterrupted tenure of dogs, it is reassuring to know that there is now a Siamese cat in the White House to keep an eye on things. Irish Setters and Golden Retrievers are all very well in their way, but they are too much given to a naive acceptance of any human as a friend...
...soon as she had released her order, Chou Yang announced from his high office in the Ministry of Culture that he was sending the very company she was working with to Hong Kong to perform Swan Lake! She was outraged but helpless. [Chou Yang reportedly maligned] The Red Detachment as an "infant in swaddling bands sucking its thumb" and an "ugly daughter...
...arranged in the traditional way by his parents and was never consummated. His second wife was Yang K'ai-hui, daughter of one of his teachers and mother of their three sons. She was beheaded in 1930 by the Nationalists...
Nonetheless, Chiang Ch'ing immediately set about to join the small and weak local Communist Party. Leftist art circles were dominated, among others, by future Cultural Commissar Chou Yang, an orthodox party functionary. (Chou was eventually purged in the Cultural Revolution.) Chou and his coterie, Chiang Ch'ing recalled with great bitterness, kept her on the edges of the Communist organization during her four years in Shanghai. She never became a member of the secret inner-party circle. For a while the party placed her in a job as a night school instructor in a Y.W.C.A. literacy program...
...House state dinner, held in honor of Mexico's President Jose Lopez Portillo and his darkly glamorous wife. Carter and Rosalynn escorted their visitors down the grand staircase. But there were no trumpets, no color guard. Instead, the Presidents and their wives were preceded by Misty Malarky Ying Yang, Amy's Siamese cat, which stealthily descended the broad marble stairs, took one look at the assembled guests and swiftly retreated to safety. Misty Malarky thereby joined the Carter cardigan, the walk down Pennsylvania Avenue and the great limousine purge as a symbol of a new kind of presidency...