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Chinese missionary background; education at Pomona College; pitcher for New York Yankees, 1914-16; freshman secretary, Stiles Hall YMCA, UC Berkeley; WWI service, and conversion to pacifism; in China with international YMCA, 1921-27: meetings with Feng Yu-hsiang, George Marshall; Kingman's China Newsletter; Stiles Hall, General Secretary,
1931-57; director, west coast office of the wartime Fair Employment Practices Commission; the McCarthy era; the Citizens' Lobby in Washington; John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign.