Word: busyness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Honegger's next project is music for a stage production of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, with sets by Picasso, to be given in Paris next winter. Said he: "That is, I am trying to work on it. They keep me very busy here-lessons both morning and afternoon with...
* Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo may get as many as 100,000 on busy Sundays and holidays, 15,000 to 20,000 on weekdays. On a good day New York City's Bronx Zoo usually gets a 60,000 to 70,000 attendance, has seen a record 83...
Typewriters & Inkpots. Meanwhile, Moslems and Hindus were wrangling over their shares of the inheritance from the British Raj. Fifty committees set up to divide the Government's assets proceeded along 50 different lines. The Moslem League wanted one-fourth of India's assets, but was not willing to...
In New Delhi, India, a 21-year-old U.S. merchant seaman named Pat Wellington walked right up to Mohandas K. Gandhi and asked: "Mr. Gandhi, what's all this trouble about over here?" Replied Gandhi: "It's the same disease that is affecting the whole world. I call...
Sometimes Herald readers try to pin Dan Poling down on his exact shade of belief. In the current issue someone asked flatly whether he is a modernist or a fundamentalist. After hedging a bit, he blithely suggested that perhaps he is a "gentle fundamentalist." Dr. Dan has little time for...