Word: changefulness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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There have been 13 sets of Siamese twins known to medical history. The original "Siamese" were Chang and Eng (really Chinese), born in Siam in 1811. They were taken out of Siam by a British merchant, exhibited by Circusman Barnum. After accumulating a small fortune, they married two sisters, took the name Bunker, settled down on a North Carolina farm, where they lived happily...
Died. Dr. Chang Shan-tse, 62, China's famed tiger painter (TIME, July 24, 1939); of heart disease; in Chungking. Born of a Catholic Chinese mother, Artist Chang was converted to Catholicism in 1937, received his Church's last rites from his friend Bishop Paul Yu-pin, highest Catholic cleric in China...
...terrorists who serve either the Japanese or their Chinese puppet, Wang Ching-wei, have bombed the Post plant five times, slaughtered guards, wounded pressmen, and last month murdered Samuel H. Chang, director of the Post and its Chinese edition...
...bottle" into the crowd. The thermos exploded, and Mamoru Shigemitsu (then Minister to China) got 32 splinters in his leg. A week later, in a hospital bed, he signed the agreement ending that year's Shanghai hostilities, shook the hand of China's Director of Intelligence Samuel Chang, then had his leg amputated...
...second reason he was unhappy was because that same Sammy Chang, for whom Shigemitsu had felt sincere affection, was assassinated in Shanghai three weeks ago by Japanese thugs, presumably of the Army's Special Service Section...