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Suddenly, like the Red Sea parting before the Israelites,the noisy crowd opened. Through a forest of waving palm branches, an open car bore a husky black man with fine-sculptured lips, melancholy eyes and a halo of frizzy black hair. The Right Honorable Kwame Nkrumah (pronounced En-kroom-ah), Bachelor of Divinity, Master of Arts, Doctor of Law and Prime Minister of the Gold Coast, waved a white handkerchief to his countrymen as they fought to touch the hem of his tunic. Then, as the band hit the groove, he jigged his broad shoulders in time to the whirling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Sunrise on the Gold Coast | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

...Well," said the priest once again. "A clean man and a dirty man were each offered a bath. Now, which would take it?" "Ah," answered his flock with sudden inspiration, "both." "No, no," said the priest, "neither would take it, because the one was already clean and the other preferred his dirt. Now, for the last time, which man would take the bath?" "Neither," answered his congregation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: Now You Know | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

...understand when you give us a different answer every time?" cried an indignant student. "Ah," said the priest, "that is dialectical materialism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: Now You Know | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

...Well," happy Auguste told some friends soon afterward, "I'm soon going to marry a young widow." Lucienne dimpled prettily: "Ah, but I'm not a young widow." "Aha," countered Auguste roguishly, "but you soon will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Swindle in the Dark | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

...accepted cinema statutes, the hero should get the girl. In every third and a half scene, the moviegoer settles back and breaths, "Ah, now he gets the girl." But, faced with the alternatives of following form or preserving the sanctity of marriage, producers Wald and Krasna chose the latter. The girl married the heavy before the picture begins...

Author: By Laurencr D. Savadovr, | Title: The Lusty Men | 10/23/1952 | See Source »

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