The Archive · 1941

CHAUFFEUR FANS

A correspondent says he watched part of the game standing among the Chinese chauffeurs, who were wildly enthusiastic and og intensely interested as the rest of the crowd.

He was surprised to hear them using a baseball vocabulary of their wearing sapphire blue. chiffon, along effectively simple lines; Audrey Hammond in a picture dress flowers on a w ground; Mrs.

F. Rundell if' black and white, with matching turban. off- TA be-shoul Ts gown of white lace, B. Moller those an

threaded with black velvet ribbons; and—of course—the ice-cream that ends the repast, Shanghai's July 4 had no community picnic. But the gay informality of the Columbia Country Club supper dance took its place. There were no firecrackers, no Boman candles—but the President was toasted at the American Club reception by members and their international guests.—Baseball—polo—children with flags—marching U. S. Marines in khaki against the green of the Race Course: so July 4, 1941 passed into histogj,

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