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Phillips Brooks House offered a basement room, which some wit soon dubbed "the black hole of Calcutta." Although students could cat a homemade lunch there and play ping-pong, there was no doubt about the room's inadequacy. Finally, in 1935, with aid from a special fund, the University opened the Commuter Center in Dudley...
...India, however, rejoiced on Republic Day. In Calcutta, three people were killed when police fired on a Communist demonstration. In Bombay, scores were injured during a Red-provoked riot. In Hyderabad, the Nizam barely escaped injury when a hand grenade thrown at his car failed to explode. And in Madras, a government spokesman announced that the specter of famine "is already sitting on a million thresholds...
Actress Roshan Dhunjiboy, a native of Calcutta, India, who understudied Ophelia with John Gielgud at the close of the war, was named yesterday as lead in the Dramatic Club's production of "Autigone...
...shocked by conditions he saw in India: the opium dens of Calcutta, the wandering lepers crying "Baksheesh," the filth and poverty of the villages. "I learned that one meal a day was all the majority of the people could count on . . . In those villages it took no effort...
...times in recent weeks extremist revolutionaries have tried to assassinate Nehru. Bengal was warming to extreme left-wing Demagogue Sarat Bose, brother of notorious Subhas Bose, the pro-Japanese strongman whose devoted followers still refuse to believe that he was killed in 1945 in an airplane crash (in his Calcutta house, they still keep his clothes pressed, ready for his return). India's Communist Party is one of Asia's smallest (about 60,000), but it manages to keep busy and highly audible under its present leader, a studiously obscure party worker named B. T. Ranadive...