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...visitor in Chungking for the last bomb-cracked month has been Lin Yu-tang, whose interpretations of China to the West (My Country and My People, The Importance of Living) once offended high Chinese officials because they were so honest. Slight, middle-aged but boyish, quick to smile, master of four languages and scores of moods, he is China's philosophic Ambassador at Large...
...Rawlingson 4G, of Montebello, California; and Charles C. Stelle 2G, of Cambridge. Resident fellowships went to Eugene P. Boardman 3G, of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin; Te-K'un Cheng 2B, of Kulangsu, Amoy, China; Yuliang Chou 1G., of Tientsin, China; Richard N. Frye 1G., of Danville, Illinois; and Sau-Yu Teng 2G., of Hunan, China...
...around, pilgrims travel to the shores of Hang-chow's West Lake proudly to urinate upon the iron statue of a historic traitor named Chin Kuei. In honor of China's newest traitor, Wang Ching-wei, Chinese coolies call the fat-fried crullers they munch for breakfast yu cha-wei (i.e., "May Wei boil in oil in hell!"). Last week a new honor was bestowed on Traitor Wang. Chinese in Chungking started a chain letter respectfully dedicated to him. Each recipient of the letter was asked to kick back one dollar and pass copies of the letter...
...Peking houseboy mocking his master with the chant : "Mo-yu cou-dzah, Mo-yu wa-dzah, Mo-yu chen, Mo-yu fa-dzah" -he has no pants, no socks, no money, no method...
...swimming pool. For, as Ginger Rogers yearns to do, and occasionally does, pictures without her dancing shoes, Sonja Henie's ambition is to do one without her skates. Judging from the acting Trudi Hovland does before her glass with heavy dramatic lines like "Let me go, Aye tall yu," this ambition will take some realizing. But so have all Sonja Henie's ambitions. And as she herself has remarked: "Most always...