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Stolen: Marlene Dietrich's jeep; from outside a Paris hotel. Chin up, she told the press she would try to get another: "A jeep is . . . a sentimental thing...
...Legislative Yuan building. None of the waiting rank & file knew what was impending. T.V. took a seat facing them, in the center of a long curved table. He was hatless, but in the chilly hall he wore his overcoat and kept a blue-and-red muffler up to his chin. On the chairman's dais behind him sat rotund Sun Fo, Legislative Yuan president, and over Sun's head hung the inevitable portrait of the chairman's father, Sun Yatsen, with the words "Tien hsia wei kung" -Everything for the people...
...three days of confusion, the Chinese dollar rocketed from 10,000-to-1 U.S. dollar, to 14,000-to-1. One day this week a foreigner walked down a crowded Shanghai street carrying Chinese currency, bundied but unwrapped, up to his chin like kindling wood. He was unguarded-and safe...
...General had invited them some time ago for afternoon movies and ice cream; he would not break this date even for affairs of state. Between meetings with the press and a long list of callers, including T. V. Soong and Chou En-lai's secretary, Chang Wen-chin, the General looked in on the moppets as they disposed of a gallon or so of vanilla. That evening he drove to the Gimo's again for family dinner...
...etching" has been sent, Robbins dreamily concludes: "This is your professor of thermodynamics taking a tacit for 24. We're clearing the joint of counterpoint, but we'll be back next black at 18:30. So have the body by the voice box, will ya? Keep ya chin up, good will toward men, and here's cookin...