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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...joined the Congress Party and for a while worked for Hindu-Moslem unity. In 1921, he abandoned the Congress to build the Moslem League and to work for a separate government for Indian Moslems. The walls of his meeting halls blazed with such slogans as: "Make the blood of slaves boil with the force of faith!" and "Make the small sparrow fight the big hawk!" He would stalk into meetings wearing his "political uniform"-native dress with a black astrakhan cap-and whip the Moslems into a frenzy. Sometimes, in his fury, his monocle would pop out of its socket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: That Man | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...better with such films as Children of Paradise and Maurice Chevalier's Le Silence Est d'Or. With its dollars, Pathé was able to gamble that the Paris would give it a profitable outlet in the U.S. market. If the Paris pays off, Pathé may build as many as twelve other small, fancy houses in U.S. cities. Prosperity could not come too soon. In Paris last week, Pathé's dapper little distribution chief Louis Metayer said sadly: "We make more profits in Colombia than we do in the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Feathers for Path | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

Vittorio had a party; he needed a program. His youthful mind thought out a youthful solution: Arsoli would build a sports ground which would provide: 1) immediate employment; 2) an interest for Arsoli youth; 3) revenue, if teams and spectators from other towns came there to play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: THE WATER OF ARSOLI | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...Junk the gingerbread monstrosity on 39th Street and build a modern opera house, equipped with the last word in mechanical, electrical and acoustical stage devices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Billy's Adieu | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...much would it cost to build a modern opera house and restage the entire repertory? Billy's guess: $20,000,000. His proposed test question for every Met production: "Will it interest a man in the first mezzanine who saw High Button Shoes last night and is going to see Mister Roberts tomorrow night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Billy's Adieu | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

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