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...Funk, 63 and silver-haired, allows that he never met Ade, who died in 1944, but that he used to sneak a nighttime swim in the Ade swimming pool. In the study, the guide explains that 20 years ago the only occupants of this house, where Will Rogers had slept and where two generations of old soldiers-Teddy Roosevelt and Douglas MacArthur among them-had come to pay respects, were raccoons and bees, them and the prairie winds. Ade had never married, and the house called Hazelden belonged to Newton County, a caretaker with more important fish to fry. Finally...
...another mile or two away the famous Zaoyuan, or Date Garden, to which the leaders moved in 1942. By then, they had broken completely with Chiang. There, on the dominant slope, are the caves of the same three men. Mao's boasted no fewer than five rooms; he slept now in a handsome dark wood sleigh bed, on a hardwood board with only a thin pad on top. Chu Teh had a fine cave suite to his left, Chou En-lai to his right...
...then to the army headquarters at Wangjiaping, a mile or two away. When I had last seen it in 1944, it was a place of excitement. It is now a gray, empty barracks, quite forbidding. Adjacent to it is the last station of the pilgrimage-Mao slept here for several weeks in his last days in Yanan, preparing to flee and reorganize his armies for the final assault on the Nationalists; he and the entire Central Committee were to be on the march for the next two years. Mao, says the guide, left Yanan on March 19, 1947, maneuvering...
...minor-league baseball team, from the producers of Hill Street Blues), the new shows find their role models not in TV trailblazers but in the Lowest Common Dreck. I Dream of Jeannie inspired Just Our Luck (ABC); Mister Ed begat Mr. Smith (NBC); Bewitched gave birth to Jennifer Slept Here (NBC). Webster (ABC) is Diff'rent Strokes with a foster mother. The Rousters (NBC) is more dudes of Hazzard. Lottery$ (ABC) is The Millionaire after inflation. Two shows, Cutter to Houston (CBS) and Trauma Center (ABC), could be called The Mod Squad Goes to Med School. Manimal...
...Qing, Mao's wife, the next morning. The Chairman had slept badly, she scolded. He had finally decided to sleep on the hard floor where he was more comfortable. After that, Mao always slept on boards as peasants do, even in the old imperial grounds of Peking where emperors once slept...