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...military airport outside the city the twin-engined Mei-Ling (named after Madame Chiang) dropped to earth after the short hop from within the city wall where Nanking's officialdom had gathered to see him off. Chiang said quick goodbyes to Vice President Li, Cabinet Minister Chang Chun and several others who had anticipated his moves correctly. Then he climbed aboard the plane and pulled the door shut himself. The Mei-Ling thundered down its runway at 4:15, climbed and circled Purple Mountain where the white stone of Sun Yat-sen's vast mausoleum reflected the last...
...China's Ting Ling, a romantic neurotic. Her grandfather was a high official under the Manchus, her father a playboy who spent most of his money before he died. Her widowed mother taught school and, embittered, drifted into the Party. Giving her own reasons for following her mother, Ting said: "I was afraid of party discipline. My main motive was to be a heroine and famous all over the world...
...Profits which are so high that they cannot be absorbed by investment, remain unspent and reduce consumer purchasing power," he explained. Keyser-ling also noted that the spending of war time savings, reconversion investments, and European aid buoy up the economy temporarily, but warned that a severe depression was inevitable unless income distribution is improved...
...Prep School of Cambridge will furnish the opposition for Moe Berg's Yard-ling baseball team today at 4 o'clock on Soldiers Field, while the Jayvees travel to Dudley to take on Nichols Junior College in the second game of a home-and-home series...
Edric A. Weld, Jr. '46, Council member in charge of Freshman affairs, was "very much encouraged" by the results of Yard-ling voting. "It was admittedly an experiment, and I think it worked," he said late last night...