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...which the 89-year-old Renaissance master was working when he died. The 72-year-old Countess Ottavia Sanseverino has always let the tourists in, interrupting her meals and muddying her gleaming marble floors, even though one gaping art lover backed into one of her pieces of priceless Ming pottery and smashed it to bits...
Class president Joan Bresnahan '51 will also announce the adoption of a new class foster child, a Polish refugee now in England. Previously the juniors provided for the food and clothing of Ching Ming, a Chinese orphan, who is now in a secondary school...
City Editor Gene Lowall of the Denver Post (circ. 237,061) collects crimes with the passion that other men lavish on postage stamps and Ming vases. A onetime crime reporter himself, he likes to swap stories with Denver cops, spends his spare hours reading and writing whodunits, calls his reporters "my agents." In 2½ years on the city desk, Lowall has done his best to make Publisher Palmer Hoyt's Post read like an up-to-date version of the old Police Gazette. To charges that he overplays crime, Lowall answers: "No matter how cheap a crime story...
...night late last month, Cheng Chien, defender of Changsha, slipped over the Communist lines, surrendered the city. In Canton, the Nationalists promptly-named Cheng's boyhood friend, Chen Ming-jen, to succeed him as defender of what was left of Hunan province. Said Chen: "I shall defend the nation and protect my native province...
Last week, Chen Ming-jen defected to the Communists too. Another southward lunge brought the Communists within 215 miles of Canton, where weary Nationalist officials began packing again. Their next stop: Chungking, scene of their exile during most of the war with Japan. Nationalist General Pai Chung-hsi hastily regrouped what was left of his forces at Hengyang...