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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sterling Area One Dollar Dominion One Sun That Never Sets One Maltese Cross One Marylebone Cricket Club One Trans-Antarctic Expedition And a Mother Country Up a Gum Tree...
...very first picture, The Trouble with Harry (1955), a Hitchcock exercise in ghoulish gaiety. She was the cute little widow who could help exhume and rebury her husband's corpse half a dozen times, looking fond, puzzled, but no more perturbed than the president of a garden club transplanting gardenias. Next came Artists and Models, one of the last joint Martin & Lewis enterprises, in which Shirley ("I was a forward comedienne in a yellow sunsuit") distinguished herself chiefly by becoming the first performer ever to steal a scene from Jerry Lewis. In Around the World in Eighty Days...
...even Rotary's critics and satirists have mellowed in the face of the club's accomplishments. Rotary contributes millions of dollars each year to charity, is the major supporter of the annual Easter Seal drive, and in the last eleven years has given scholarships to more than 1,200 students from 67 countries. A neighborhood club at heart. Rotary would like, as Harold Thomas puts it, to "make the whole world a neighborhood, and bring it even more bridges to friendship." It set up the cultural exchange group that later became UNESCO, settled a 150-year-old boundary...
...chief whose wife delivered him), he fought in France in World War I, went back to Auckland to become manager of a tiny furniture company. He soon took over, expanded the company until it now spreads through New Zealand. He joined Rotary in 1923, only two years after the club got to New Zealand. As the "NZers" flocked into Rotary, Thomas' responsibilities grew with the club; he became local president, district governor, sparked the movement that more than trebled Rotary membership in New Zealand...
What Meets the Eye? A Book of the Month Club selection for July, The Lion is the work of a busy Frenchman named Joseph Kessel. Since the age of 20, he has managed to write 30 books, most of them based on his sightseeing. The Lion is the product of two months spent in Kenya in 1954, where he visited just such a game reserve, which was run by just such a warden, who had just such a daughter, who had just such...