Mme. Wellington Koo, wealthy wife of the Chinese Ambassador to Great Britain, is a collector of jade and friends, a famed hostess, a noted linguist (English, French, Dutch, German, Mandarin, Malay)—and an unpublished author. For four years she has worked on an autobiography, but only recently did her busy husband, now in the U.S., find time to read it. Two days before the book was due to go on sale last week, more than 6,000 booksellers and critics who already had copies got a hurried telegram from Dial Press: "Publication suspended."
From Gertrude Stein, doggedly pursuing her own literary life in...
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