Word: yu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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STAR SPANGLED BANNER Oh sai ken yu sai bai di dons er li lait, Juat so proud li ui jeld at di tuai lais
Catholic Bishop Paul Yu-pin returned to Chungking last week from a tour of the stricken areas. In Loyang he saw bundles of leaves being sold to refugees for food, a dollar a bunch. Children's bellies were bloated and distended with such Foodstuffs. Sometimes starving families collect all remnants of food in their homes, eat their last meal and then commit suicide. While the Bishop was visiting one village, a farmer gathered his family round him, fed them their last full meal and then told them he had poisoned the food they had just eaten...
Obvious slips mar an otherwise enjoyable film. It takes place in the most mid-western New England town you've ever seen. If you can picture Concord looking as though cowboys would come hooting through the Common, yu might believe the town is east of the Hudson. And the hero, Ronnie Colman, who graduated from Harvard Law School at an amazingly undraftable age, is plagued with the epithet "Sonny." Acceptance of the bogus New England village apparently implies belief in Colman as "Sonny." Cary Grant tries and tires his old, set role, and Jean Arthur still has a hair...
...many Ma family warlords sent word through the hills and in three weeks raised a fanatical army of 60,000 Chinese Moslems. Looting and terrorizing, the rebels nearly conquered a northwest China empire half as big as Europe before being defeated by the "Christian General," Feng Yu-hsiang. Last week another of the Ma clan, once-rambunctious General Ma Puching, peacefully accepted appointment as Commissioner of Reclamation in the dreary swamplands of Chinghai Province near Tibet...
Teaching Fellows in Electronics: William C. Bohn, of Maplewood, N. J., S.B. Harvard '25; George L. Harvey, of Atlanta, Go., S.M. University of Arkansas '40; James R. Hooper Jr., of Dedham, Mass., S.M. Harvard '39; Alfred Keck, of Hyde Park, Mass., S.M. Harvard '41; Yu-yueh A. Mao, of Pingyueh, Kweichow, China, S.M. Harvard '41; David Middleton, of New York, N. Y., A.B. Harvard '42; Sidney Soloway, of Worcester, Mass., S.B. Worcester Polytechnic Institute '41; Leo W. Tobin Jr., of Flint, Mich., A.B. Harvard '42; and Guy Worsley, of Pennington, N. J., A.M. Cambridge University, England...