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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
Oriental orgy for a young correspondent, later nationally famous, on the
ground that it was necessary for him to be blooded as a man. He enjoyed
the loyalty and friendship of a great many people, though not everybody
liked him. Emily Hahn, in her China to Me, said bluntly that she did not,