Derb, I didn’t know about Mao’s dancing, only about his swimming. Do you think he was a better dancer or swimmer? Of course, what he was really good at was killing people. For the pleasure of those not yet familiar with it, I will print one of Bob Conquest’s famous limericks:

There was a great Marxist called Lenin Who did two or three million men in. That’s a lot to have done in But where he did one in That grand Marxist Stalin did ten in.

And Mao did many more in. Incidentally, his image — in the Andy Warhol treatment, I think — was all about Ann Arbor when I was growing up. Then Che, somehow, overtook him.