Short Stories, July 25, 1944THE HUNGRY MANDARINby WALTER C. BROWNAuthor of “The Haunted Pigeons,” “Seven Frightened Mandarins,” etc.A Sixty-four Dollar Question—Who Can Figure Out What a Chinaman Will Do?The September 29, 1952 episode of CBS's Lux Video Theatre, "A Message for Janice", staring Jackie Cooper and Grace Kelly, was based on a story by Walter C Brown.