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...Writer Wen O. Henry Award...
...Pinspotters in 17 foreign countries, counts on the nascent global bowling boom to substantially increase its 1960 overseas sales of $22 million. To expand its line of recreational equipment, AMF has bought W. J. Voit Rubber Corp. (tread rubber, scuba gear), Ben Hogan Co. (golfing equipment), and Wen-Mac Corp. (engine-powered toy airplanes...
Born. To Chiang Hsiao-wen, 25, Chiang Kai-shek's eldest grandson who is in the export-import business in Taipei, and Nancy Chiang, 22, granddaughter of onetime Gimo comrade in arms: their first child, a daughter, and first great-grandchild of 73-year-old Chiang; in Taipei...
...eyes like muscatel grapes," he quickly let her know that his first love was English. He packed her off to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art to drop her "very queer R's" and pick up her elocutionary ABCs. One of his early obiter dictions: "Wot, wich, were, wen. weel, etc. are absolutely incorrect; but the alternatives hwat, hwich, hwere, hwen, and hweel are equally incorrect...
Tuesday, August 11: 8:30 p.m., lecture, "How to Look at Chinese Painting," Wen Fong, Fogg Lecture Room...