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Vera Micheles Dean, Radcliffe '25, a leading American foreign policy expert, and Taun-sheng Chien, Ph.D. '24, one of China's foremost political scientists, are the new faculty members, with appointments dating from February...
...inside the bamboo fence of the Gruin's ten-mow (3⅓-acre) "estate." In Shanghai, Bureau Chief William Gray, his wife "Freddie," and their three children, looked forward to being in their new house on Columbia Road. Said Gray: "We'll hang up the sang chi sheng (mistletoe) and the mao erh to tzu (cat's ears or thorn of holly) and startle passing ricksha boys with God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen...
Edmund W. Pugh, Jr. was named Assistant Dean of the Business School, James R. Tightower, instructor in Chinese, William Hung visiting lecturer on Far Eastern Languages, and Kenneth Kuan-Sheng Ch'en research fellow in Far Eastern languages...
...Mukden, they talked to one Soong Chu-sheng, tobacco factory manager. He told them how the Russians had looted last fall, had methodically stripped factories, had taken two-thirds of his cigaret output without pay. Shortly afterward, the talkative Soong was shot by a gunman. Several of the correspondents accused themselves in print of being "unwitting motivators" of his murder...
...Agriculture and Forestry Minister it appointed Ku Cheng-kang, fortyish, hitherto Minister of Social Affairs. Minister Ku replaced General Sheng Shih-tsai, the sad-eyed epicure (he likes sea slugs, champagne, Russian chocolates) who last year lost the Government of Sinkiang for openly opposing Russian influence. At the recent meeting of the People's Political Council, General Sheng was violently denounced as a grafter and as one who took "lives lightly as grass...