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...story goes that, in bygone days, whenever a baby girl was born in China's Fukien Province, her family planted 100 trees as her future dowry. Consequently, Fukien abounds in lush woodlands which, unfortunately, provide ideal hideouts for various killers, including Communists and tigers. Nationalist soldiers (as if the Communists were not enough) have found themselves beset by the tiger menace...
...Some villagers say that recently the ghost of Confucius, accompanied by the wraiths of several disciples, was seen wandering through a certain Fukien forest. There it met an old woman weeping beside a grave. She said: 'My husband's father was killed here by a tiger, and my husband also; and now my son has met the same fate.' Confucius asked why she didn't return to her village instead of living in so dangerous a place. The old woman wailed: 'I am a refugee from the Communists. Here there are tigers but no oppressive...
...future spotlights matches with Yale and Princeton, who currently share the intercollegiate league lead with the Crimson, and, typical of Big Three battles, this promises to be a honey, as the eyes of squash fortune are also shining on the Bulldog and Tiger this year. Besides their regular intercollegiate play, the Varsity may enter the national championships in Boston at the end of February. Most important, however, are the intercollegiate singles championships at the start of March. The Crimson will probably enter its top trio in this competition which will bring together over 20 of the East's top racquet...
Married. Major General Claire Lee Chennault (ret.), 57, granite-faced old China hand; and Anna Chan, 24, Shanghai newspaperwoman, daughter of a onetime Chinese consul in San Francisco; in Shanghai. Ex-Flying Tiger Boss Chennault, who stayed in China to run the Fourteenth Air Force after the U.S. got into the fight (and now runs a China airline carrying relief supplies), was divorced 17 months ago by his first wife, who had borne him eight children...
...instigated program which filled two C-4 type ships, "Marine Tiger" and "Marine Jumper," is sponsored by the Institute for International Education, American Youth Hostels, the Experiment in International Living, and the Friends' Service Committee...