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...post-mortems on Su Lin had not been finished when Floyd Tangier ("Ajax") Smith arrived in Chengtu, China with four giant pandas, three of them male cubs, which he had found in Western Szechuan Province. An American banker in China who turned big-game hunter more than 15 years ago, gaunt, bespectacled Floyd Smith has spent most of his 55 years abroad, notably in the Orient. Chicago's Field Museum has sponsored many of his expeditions, though lately he has worked for the London Zoo and the British Museum. Two years ago he formed a panda-hunting partnership with...
...autumn the Methodist board of foreign missions has collected $61,000 above its budget, about one third of what it needs. Lately missionaries of the University of Nanking (in which Methodists and four other denominations cooperate) made a remarkable 1,000-mile trek to West China Union University in Chengtu, a three-week trip by boat past Hankow and through the Yangtze gorges. This move was partly financed by the Associated Board of Christian Colleges in China, which is currently appealing for $300,000 in the U. S. (TIME...
...ears of the Canright and Powell families. The ears of the Powells, starting with F. J. Powell, a retired merchant of West Lafayette, Ohio, are lobeless - i.e., the "lobes" are fastened to the skin of the neck. The ear lobes of Harry Lee Canright, onetime a medical missionary at Chengtu, China, and of his family are free. Dr. Canright's free-lobed daughter married lobeless Eugene F. Powell, zoologist son of the West Lafayette Powells. The ears of their five sons and daughters have free lobes...
...From Chengtu last fortnight Hashed a message tantalizing to every zoologist in the world. It said that Mrs. Harkness had just arrived from the Tibetan border with a live panda. If it was only a panda, her catch was of no consequence. The panda -a small, bushy-tailed, raccoon-like creature-had often been captured before...
Hewitt Mitchell is now married to a former school friend and rearing a baby daughter who traveled some 10,000 mi. during her first three months. Back in Shanghai, flying through the fogs of the Yangtzekiang, and meantime training Pilot McCleskey for the new Shanghai-Chengtu Express, he is looking forward to a vacation and home next summer...