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...sweater, stepped jauntily from tee to green. He was shooting good golf ("Something around 80," he guessed). On the 18th hole, his ball plopped within five feet of the pin (applause) and then he sank the putt (more applause). Bing looked reproachfully over his shoulder and husked: "What did ya expect...
...told him they were going to unveil a plaque marking the approximate spot where the atom bomb started five years ago this afternoon. "They ain't makin' no bombs there now, are they?" he asked. I told him I didn't think so. He said: "Wadda ya know" and went back down in the excavation...
...Ya!"-the Box! After the police departed, Dr. Lo & friends burned confidential documents. Among the items tossed on the fire was a fairly complete list of Kuomintang secret agents. Interestingly enough, this document was retrieved from the flames at a favorable moment by another Kuomintang secret agent (his name obviously not on the list) who had wormed his way into the Democratic League and happened to be serving as a member of the burning party...
...hopped into the green Chrysler sedan inherited last year from departing Communist Negotiator Chou Enlai, and drove to the Soviet Embassy. He entered the Embassy with an interesting box, came back to his car without it. Fledgling plainclothesmen got their ears scorched when they reported his visit. "Ai ya!" groaned a Chinese detective superintendent, "Why didn't you pretend a collision, yell, stop the car, claim, the box-anything...
Chinese Communists, of course, were delighted. Shanghai's Communist Newsletter offered a straight-faced explanation of Wedemeyer's stern talk: "His name is pronounced wo-ti-mai-ya, which means 'my stepfather.' "Actually, the official transliteration stood for something many Chinese thought just as apt: "lofty surpassing virtue...