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Meanwhile, circulation may be Ivoking for a third-class monarch with a Paris chit, sending flash acks for unflushed giftees, or getting a nonconvertible yen for an over-the-transom order...
...Shanghai as the Lungyen King. At his Unsurpassed Prosperity Shop at the corner of Canton and Fukien Roads, Chang had long sold the best dragon's-eyes or lungyen nuts (something like lichees) in the city, together with two patent medicines of his own invention: Ginseng Lung-yen Tonic Syrup and another lungyen tonic for menstrual troubles. Through wars, revolutions and even the Japanese occupation, Chang had prospered, planting his profits in Shanghai real estate and running his business on traditionally paternalistic lines. His seven employees had all been with him since their teens, learning the business thoroughly. After...
Kenneth Walker, eminent British surgeon, put his faith in the gods of Harley Street: scientific method and a good bedside manner. Off duty, he indulged his yen for the fanciful in a voyage to India, a flyer in Paraguayan railway shares, a children's book about Noah's Ark. The strains of 20th century life left him wishing, now & then, for a good latter-day ark. In 1923, a friend startled him by announcing that "a small group of people now in London . . . has started building one." When Walker asked for the new Noah's name...
...Actor Power lacks Actor Howard's charm and talent, and his inter-century romance with Ann Blyth (who turns up at the end in a 20th century reincarnation) makes something gooey and adolescent out of what once seemed hauntingly otherworldly. The picture may give moviegoers a yen to go backward in time themselves, if only to 1933, when Leslie Howard was starring in Berkeley Square...
...mean that Britain is about to set the pound sterling free to find its own level in world markets, as the U.S. has long urged. The official price of a pound sterling will stay pegged at $2.80. But private banks will now be able to haggle for dollars, yen and kroner on their own terms, getting the best price they can-so long as the pounds bought for immediate use do not rise above $2.83 or fall below $2.77 in the transaction. The change will mean nothing to tourists and perhaps little to traders. But Chancellor R. A. ("Rab") Butler...