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...routine. Premier Soong could now devote more attention to China's galloping inflation and related problems. But though T. V. had won great administrative power, he still had to buck the political machine run by the Kuomintang's right-wing "CC" clique, led by the brothers Chen Kuo-fu and Chen...
...leading citizens, the smiling Japs who had come to this town long before Dec. 7, 1941, acquired 75% of its wealth, made it a "little Tokyo" in the Philippines and plastered big Tokyo with posters urging other Japs to settle there. Suspicious Manilans called it "Davao-kuo"-a somber reference to the process by which the Japs had moved into Manchuria, then renamed it Manchukuo...
...real shocker was a supine human skeleton, varnished with gleaming gilt paint, dazzlingly berobed and tenderly laid out to impersonate one Kuo Ch'in Wang, a Ch'ing Dynasty prince. After that, it was scarcely surprising to see a ghostly, frozen parade of the glittering imperial robes from the Ch'ing Dynasty courts, 1644 to 1911, which variously seemed to gesture in salute, prayer or mute ritualism. Also displayed were robes of Buddhist and Taoist priests, of devil dancers and court theater performers. So splendid were these vestments that the Metropolitan's Far Eastern Art Curator...
Albert Einstein, for his scientific skepticism in scoffing at the notion that eggs stand on end in China on the first day of the Chinese spring (TIME, Feb. 12) was taken to task by Chen Kuo-fu, head of China's radio network, who told Einstein off as follows: the first day of spring in China begins when the surface of the sun toward the earth is largest, thus attracting the eggs to stand on end. Chen Kuo-fu added that he believed the sun was not round, asked Einstein to "look into the matter...
...Last year Bishop Chen baptized the Generalissimo's second son, Captain Chiang Wei-kuo. 29. *Three weeks ago Retired Bishop Gowdy now living at Winter Park, Fla., received the Special Order of Brilliant Stars medal from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek...