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...China, a Peking University professor at 26, Hu started a literary reform that crackled through China like fire through a paper house. Today Pai Hua is used in China's schools, books and some newspapers (though not government documents). All China reveres Hu Shih as the "Young Sage" (the old one: Confucius...
...Young Sage was once a young rip. A precocious child, he knew 800 characters of Wen Li before he was three, had earned the nickname Shien-seng (the master) by the time he was five. In his teens Hu became disillusioned, turned to gloomy poetry and carousing, awoke one morning in jail for assaulting a cop while soused. Looking at his scratched face in a mirror, Hu recalled a proverb ("Heaven intended this material surely for some use"), vowed to win a Boxer Indemnity scholarship to the U.S. He did, and went to Cornell...
...Mencken, cackling, venerable Sage of Baltimore, made quick response when he read a complaint that no local museum had a painting by Thomas Hart Benton. He himself had one, said Mencken, "in my cellar at this minute, gathering dust"-and he offered it to "any gallery that wants it, entirely free of all cost or expense." The Baltimore Museum of Art got the painting (an abstraction done in Benton's "earlier and more foolish days"), and Mencken asked as his reward an exemption on his income...
Squaw Grass. Such biological warfare annoyed not only the Dutch, but also Mrs. Frank Ball, representative of the Virginia State Federation of Garden Clubs, who is convinced that without Dutch bulbs, U.S. gardens will degenerate into "patches of broom sage and squaw grass." Cried Mrs. Ball: "Are we going ... to deny [the Dutch] the opportunity to earn in trade the very dollars we are called upon to give them...
...still suffering from the blue weekend? Has the prospect of returning to unfinished themes and uninterrupted classes filled you with an urge to do something different? Are you a budding newshound, a sophomore sage, or a financial whiz...