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...noisiest weekend in Rabaul since 1943, when U.S. bombers flattened the South Pacific town. Seemingly bent on the same sort of destruction, rival tribesmen swarmed into the two-acre market square, wrecked the open-air benches piled with produce, belted one another, battered police cars, beat up the native constabulary and shoved a fire engine over a four-foot bank. It all began when, in the midst of a jostling market crowd, a Sepik tribesman pinched the stern of a shapely Tolai tribeswoman...
...former automobile company, which in 1949 sold off all its automotive properties and became solely an investment holding company. Bent exclusively on building up capital, Graham-Paige has not paid a cash dividend since 1926 but has increased its net worth from $2,500,000 to $18.5 million in the past twelve years...
Amateur radio operators are called hams, and it is easy to see why: talk, talk, talk-that's all they seem to do. There are 250,000 of them in the U.S., and another estimated 100,000 elsewhere in the world, all of them chiefly bent on short-wave conversation about capacitors, resistors, transmitters, antennas, and occasionally, the weather and what is playing at the local movie house...
Unable to straighten up completely because of her recent gall-bladder extraction (TIME, July 7), convalescent Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe, 35, was further bent by a madding mob of 300 as she was propelled out of Manhattan's Polyclinic Hospital. While some blamed her new tornado tresses on the shoddy protection of her eight-man flying wedge of hospital attendants, insiders suspected the genius of Jacqueline Kennedy's coiffeur, Mr. Kenneth...
Across the River and Into the Trees, and a small but immutable achievement, The Old Man and the Sea. For the rest, the legend engulfed the man, and he seemed bent on playing the part of a Hemingway character...