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...Week Pictorial had Times prestige, Times professional standards in its making. However, the big paper never did much to promote its small offspring, and top Pictorial circulation, in 1925, was only 65,278. Last week the Times's President Arthur Hays Sulzberger finally cut Mid-Week Pictorial adrift, but not without seeing that its control was to fall into able hands. It was announced that Mid-Week Pictorial had been sold to sleek, shrewd Monte Bourjaily, who last week resigned as general manager of the (United Press) United Features Syndicate...
...most readers, Bligh's story ends after he had been placed in an open boat with 18 men, "150 lb. of bread, 16 pieces of pork, each weighing 2 lb., 6 quarts of rum, 6 bottles of wine ... 28 gallons of water" and set adrift. Actually his career was only beginning when he reached the island of Timor 41 days later. A popular hero on his return to London, after "a voyage of the most extraordinary nature that ever happened in the world," he sailed again to the South Seas, fought in the battle of Camperdown, was driven...
Whether or not Yogis can "induce cataleptic rigidity in a limb or in the whole body" is irrelevant here: it would require not even an "unbelievably strong" man to stiffen sufficiently for the purposes of this trick; nor would he need to "cut adrift from this world and concentrate on the spiritual life to the exclusion of all else." RAYMOND BLAIR...
...curious way, has had an important secondary effect upon his work in this picture. The character of Captain Bligh, as presented to posterity by Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall, was remarkable for combining, with the peevish, effeminate cruelty which caused the Bounty's crew to set him adrift in an open boat in mid-Pacific, that cool, incredible heroism which enabled the boat, propelled as much by the force of Bligh's indomitable determination as by wind or oars, to reach the Dutch island of Timor, across 3,600 miles of open sea. In Mutiny on the Bounty...
Such educators had their eyes, last week on Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tenn., where old Chancellor James Hampton Kirkland seemed about to give the Chicago plan a new twist. Next autumn, he announced, the last two years of the college will be cut adrift from the first two, moored to a graduate school under a single dean. The first two years could scarcely become anything but a junior college...