Word: hanning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...department, a 200-seat auditorium, a junior museum and a 2,500-volume art library. For the new sculpture court, Sir Jacob Epstein's widow gave six of his busts, including one of Somerset Maugham. Soon the Far Eastern gallery will put on display a distinguished collection of Han-dynasty pottery, on extended loan. Donald DeCoursey Harrington, a gas and oil investor living in Texas, has donated 47 paintings from Boudin to Vuillard that make the museum's survey of French art its most vital collection...
...Communist bank is directed by Chairman Nan Han-chen, 73, a deceptively benign looking finance specialist who took part in the abortive 1936 kidnaping of Chiang Kai-shek by Shensi-province Reds. Taiwan's bank is headed by ascetic Yu Kuo-hwa, 51, a veteran follower of Chiang who studied at Harvard and the London School of Economics. Taiwan's branches abroad are becoming the bank's vital arm. Last year the Nationalist bank reported earnings of $3,200,000, its biggest profit-and $2,300,000 of that came from overseas operations...
...this moonlit night on Han San isle...
...Han Suyin made a literary reputation of sorts by telling, in A Many-Splendored Thing, all the revealing intimate details of her carryings-on in Hong Kong with a married British foreign correspondent who got killed in the Korean War. Several autobiographical exposés later, Eurasian Suyin, now 48, tells again of herself, this time as a child, and of the declining fortunes of her father's Mandarin family at a time of chaos, civil war and foreign depredation in China. "The characters in this book," says the author, "are not fictional, neither are the events...
...Han Suyin herself, she prefers to live in capitalist Singapore...