TheCodeBreakers
invading China. In Chungking, he at first passed himself off as an
exporter of hides, but no one in the small and tight-knit foreign colony
there was fooled for very long. He seems to have enjoyed some success in
solving the Japanese ciphers, which appear to have been columnar
transposition of the kana symbols.
By then he was changing. He was basically an attractive personality
who enjoyed simple masculine pleasures. He would rise at dawn to go
duckhunting, shot a good enough game of golf to have won the Greene
County (Indiana) championship in 1932, and played poker with a
compulsive intensity wherever and whenever he could. He regaled his
companions with a flood of amusing stories, told with the wit and gusto
of a natural raconteur. He was the very opposite of stuffy, and did not
hesitate to admit that he knew his way around in a Chinese whorehouse.
He kept a Chinese and a German mistress* and once organized a virtual
annaabi.ee 
