A Very Knowledgeable Book Club Studies Carl Crow’s 400 Million Customers

The local book club of Denison, Texas chose Crow’s 400 Million Customers as its book choice for April 1947 (Carl was sadly deceased for 2 years by then). An interesting group we can assume as John Clift had been editor and written the “Yank About China” column for Stars and Stripes (the US Army newspaper) from Shanghai for several years before returning to America and his White Russian wife, Kyra Kuprianovitch Clift (born in Harbin in 1923 and her obituary here) worked for Time-Life in Shanghai – Time-Life and Stars & Stripes shared the same office in Shanghai after WW2 and, I believe, there was a company car shared by the Stars and Stripes Editor and the Time-Life correspondents …The Stars and Stripes was available in Shanghai from a newsstand by the Customs Jetty, every day except Sundays. I think (though it moved around a bit) that the office was at No.17 Bund, the offices of the North-China Daily News but also where many other publications were headquartered. It must have been a fascinating discussion….