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Emily Hahn, best-selling author (Seductio ad Absurdum, The Soong Sisters), got news in Manhattan about her English friend Major Charles Boxer, whom she described in China to Me as the father of her four-year-old daughter Carola. The ex-Chief of British Military Intelligence in Hong Kong had been found alive and well in a Jap prison camp, said the London Evening News. Said Miss Hahn: "He'll come home and marry me, of course...
...Emily Hahn became the University of Wisconsin's first woman graduate in mining engineering. Several years later she began to smoke cigars, wrote a satirical guide to seduction (Seductio ad Absurdum). In 1930 she turned up in the Belgian Congo wearing shorts and pith helmet, and wrote a book about it (With Naked Foot). After a spell as a reporter in London, footloose Emily's flight from the domestic atmosphere of Winnetka took her in 1935 to newspaper work in Shanghai and an unconventional apartment in the city's red-light district. She stayed in the Orient...
Emily Hahn, rash, black-haired, late-jazz-age authoress (Seductio ad Absurdum) who became Shanghai's favorite ex-New Yorker, deplored the lack of Occidental gossip. Back in the U.S. (via the Gripsholm) for the first time in nine years, the onetime "China Coast Correspondent" of The New Yorker sighed for the Oriental candor she had left behind: "When I talk to my friends, on the phone say, about some man who divorced his wife to run off with her daughter by a former marriage, they say: 'sh-sh, you're back in New York, you know...
...Emily Hahn's first book, Seductio ad Absurdum, was not only funny but shrewd. Beginners Luck, her second, is more ambitious than a marshmallow. but a marshmallow it is. Blake had been kicked out of an Eastern prep school for being a menace to the community. Gin was a girl who had left home, was now a guide on New Mexican bus tours. Teddy had come from poor but respectable parents to be an artist in the Southwest. They all met in Santa Fe, played together, thought it would be glorious to run away to Mexico. So they did. Just...
...gives 19 typical cases of seduction technique; each is cast in dialog form. The titles suggest the types: Feel My Muscle, You're Not the Domestic Type, An Ugly Old Thing Like Me, What Do You Think Your Husband's Doing?, Music Gets Me. Author Hahn calls Seductio ad Absurdum a beginner's handbook, announces a course for advanced students in preparation: The Seducers Veni Mecum...