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...current word for it at Wisconsin's Beloit College. It applies to homecomings, and to "hell weeks" (during which freshman coeds have to do such tricks as painting class numerals on their cheeks and dancing the conga backwards). Last week Beloit had an official party, with Novelist Lin Yutang as an honored guest, to celebrate its 100th birthday...
...Yutang had finally realized his ambition and dream-a "practical" Chinese typewriter. Soon to be marketed was his long-gestated brainchild, a 64-key affair with "a theoretical total of 90,000 characters,† including . . . many new, weird combinations." Declared best-selling Lin happily: the machine was "adequate for all commercial and literary purposes...
...Russia is not all it is cracked up to be. Others: Persian Gulf Command, Joel Sayre's readable report on a supply front which has currently become a war front; American Guerrilla in the Philippines, Ira Wolfert; On to Westward, Robert Sherrod; The Vigil of a Nation, Lin Yutang; Wars I Have Seen, Gertrude Stein; Forever China, Robert Payne...
...county jail, her fellow-prisoners rallied to her support: throughout the six-week trial they kept her hair dyed and waved, tidied her cell, washed her nylons. Halfway through her ordeal they bought her a new spring hat to wear to court. While the jury deliberated, she read Lin Yutang's The Importance of Living...
...VIGIL OF A NATION-Lin Yutang- John...