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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Menon met Nehru in London and became his unofficial literary and political agent. In 1947, on taking power, a grateful Nehru named Menon to be India's first high commissioner in London, though the expatriate was so little known among his people that his name did not even appear in India...
...University's main projects for the Bicentennial year has been assembling and distributing a series of panels with text written by Mark Van Doren, illustrating and interpreting "Man's Right to Knowledge and the Free Use Thereof." Typically only once in the 60 panel exhibit does the name Columbia appear, and that is on the title card down in the right hand corner, stating briefly that the collection has been "arranged by Columbia on the occasion of its Bicentennial." Appeal has been made not to potentially susceptible and prosperous businessmen but to other educational institutions, and the appeal...
...gravity. Yet such devices--and there are many--seem merely pasted on to an essentially light story; I have the feeling that they do not belong here, that they are an awkward bow to something that Tuckerman cannot handle within the scope of his novel. Well worn phrases constantly appear, as when Teuckerman talks of an English boy, "He never did understand them (the French), although with thousands of his own kind he gave up his life on French soil a few years later." Of course the thought is sympathetic and rightly reverent, but it has been said so many...
...Standing Committee has the right to annul decisions of the State Council (Cabinet), which gives Liu a veto over his rival, Chou Enlai, who was reappointed Premier. Liu's name now follows Mao's on all lists, and leads the rest when Mao's does not appear. Tall, gaunt Liu Shao-chi is one of the least known of the Peking rulers, a humorless man whose slightest pronouncement on Communist theory rings among the party rank and file more loudly than the bombast of other figures. His wife once said of him: "He has an inexorable heart...
When CBS offered him $40,000 to appear on Shower of Stars, Tenor Lanza announced he would make his long-awaited comeback. He dieted furiously and reduced his weight by 40 Ibs. But when it came time to loose the famous voice, he was too weak from dieting. CBS, deciding that Lanza was too big a name to drop from Shower's première, tried a secret expedient. When the monthly show opened last week with Betty Grable and Harry James, Mario merely mouthed the lyrics while some of his three-year-old recordings provided the sound...