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Doughnuts & Nibbles. And so it went: a baritone-soprano duo, a dramatic monologue by a man who told the stirring story of a 41-year-old doughnut, a book reviewer, a man showing a travel film on Texas. Biggest hit: an obviously talented 17-year-old Korean pianist named Tong II Han, whose fluid performance of Scarlatti and Chopin sent the audience into a dither...
...Heard from the State Department that Nationalist China's Ambassador Hollington K. Tong had delivered the Chiang Kai-shek government's "profoundest regrets" for an ugly incident in Taipei, Formosa: a mob. angered by a U.S. Army court-martial's acquittal of a G.I. charged with voluntary manslaughter of a Chinese, stormed into the U.S. embassy and injured at least nine U.S. citizens (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...retired to live in suburban Westchester County, outside New York. From John Foster Dulles, who first met Koo at the 1919 Versailles Conference, where Dulles was a junior member of the U.S. delegation and Koo headed the Chinese delegation, went a warm letter. Koo's replacement: Hollington K. Tong, 69, member of the first class graduated by Columbia University's School of Journalism, China's propaganda minister in World War II, Nationalist China's Ambassador to Japan since 1952, good friend of the U.S. and of Chiang Kaishek...
...your article anent the new Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden . . . you say two of Eden's brothers, Timothy and Nicholas, were killed. When last heard of in 1949, Sir Timothy Calvert Eden was going strong as eighth baronet, and so to speak, chief of the family tong. It was John Eden-the eldest of four brothers of whom Timothy was second, Anthony third and Nicholas fourth - who was killed in the Kaiser's war in France . . . Nicholas, a midshipman, died in the Battle of Jutland...
First to appear outside the U.S. correspondents' billets in Seoul one day last week were ranks of pigtailed schoolgirls, trim and neat in starched white uniforms. While a few girls passed out handbills in English, leaders with cardboard megaphones set up a steady chant: "Puk chin, tong il (March north for unification)." The leaders glanced frequently at their directions on bits of note paper. Soon one among the leaders began to sob and weep. Younger girls took the cue, contorted their faces with grimaces of rage and fury. The chant became shrill, strident, then hysterically out of hand...