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Married. Dean Jagger, 42, cinemactor (Brigham Young, Sister Kenny); and Gloria Ling, 24, secretary to FORTUNE'S executive editor; he for the second time, she for the first; after a Santa Monica, Calif, marriage bureau denied them a license because of Miss Ling's Chinese father (California law prohibits white-Mongolian marriages), in Albuquerque...
...Moscow, Izvestia attacked the Chungking Government as corrupt, defeatist and reaction ary. In San Francisco, Tung Pi-wu, Communist member of China's delegation to the security conference, issued a 31 -page memorandum extol ling the Chinese Communists and berating the Chungking Government...
...Jones Soong, who as a boy (9) came to the U.S., be came a Christian and returned to China to father one of the world's most distinguished broods of children. T.V. is the brother of the famed Soong sisters, China's three first ladies— Ching-ling (Madame Sun Yat-sen), Ailing (Madame H. H. Kung), Mei-ling (Madame Chiang Kai-shek). Of Soong's three sons, only T. V. has rivaled his sisters in place and prestige...
...were too busy climbing garden walls, studying Confucius, learning Chinese nursery rhymes, Jesus Loves Me, and the story of George Washington to know what the little revolutionist would mean to China and to them. T.V. was a weedy adolescent (he outgrew his clothes every three months, and Sister Mei-ling wore his hand-me-downs) when the Revolution of 1911 broke out. "Uncle" Sun was not even around. He was in a Denver, Colo. restaurant, collecting funds from Chinese sympathizers in the U.S. But by November 1911, he came back to China. Two months later, he took the oath...
Died. Mrs. Elizabeth White, 59, onetime Princess Der Ling, lady-in-waiting to China's Dowager Empress Tzu-hsi, first high-born Chinese woman to marry a foreigner (Thaddeus White, U.S. Vice Consul at Shanghai); after being run down by a truck; in Berkeley, Calif. Daughter of a Manchu ambassador to France, Princess Der Ling, in America, lectured to eager audiences, wrote reminiscences of Chinese royalty (Son of Heaven, Jades and Dragons), taught Chinese at the University of California...