Word: bengals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles. He commanded a destroyer in the War, was knighted for service with the British War Mission to the U. S. in 1918. A talented pianist and marine artist, he had not been well since a Black Widow spider bit him during the filming of Lives of a Bengal Lancer...
...continental lobe. Unusually fertile and desert free, it is dotted with artificial lakes and storage reservoirs, has no sea-coast-a grave disadvantage-but is well watered by a system of rivers on which float many a quaint coracle. The district drains eastward into the Bay of Bengal...
...ably assisted by Captain John Colony, Don Barker and Don McKay, the Tiger sprint squad under Van Oss will get lean pickings. Dario Berrizzi will strive to lead the field in the middle and longer distances, and will have a tougher time when he comes up against the speedy Bengal captain...
Readers of his Lives of a Bengal Lancer will remember that ex-Lancer Yeats-Brown was not only an enthusiastic polo-player and pig-sticker but an amateur of Hindu mysticism. In Lancer at Large, an account of India revised after 15 years, Hollywood will be hard put to it to find any material at all. At 50, Yeats-Brown approached India not as a sporty subaltern but as an inquiring disciple...
...glad to finance Leprologist Ernest Muir so that he might leave his headquarters in London for an evangelistic tour of U. S. medical centres where leprosy, the subject in which the Memorial is particularly interested, is studied. Dr. Muir, 56, spent 15 years as a medical missionary among Bengal lepers, another 15 years as a research worker in leprosy in Calcutta's School of Tropical Medicine. At present he is Medical Secretary of the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association. In the U. S., Dr. Muir addressed the American Society of Tropical Medicine during a convention in Baltimore, inspected...