Word: collision
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sound Track. In Boston, Collis E. Wallingford was fined $200 for drunken driving after he careened into a bus terminal, sat honking his horn in an effort to get the buses out of his way.
The constitution of the 27,000-member American Newspaper Guild, C.I.O., provides that no one shall be barred from guild membership "by reason of age, sex, race, national origin, religious or political conviction." That provision has always prevented the guild from slamming the door on Communist members. Last week at...
Lowry painted his city scapes for two decades before a gallery owner spotted some in a London frame shop in 1938, offered him a one-man show. Since then, Lowry has had five successful London exhibitions, earned himself a reputation as England's foremost regional painter. Last week Britons...
The Grand Peregrination, by Maurice Collis. The 16th Century travels of the Marco Polo-like Portuguese, Fernao Mendes Pinto, whose Far East adventures cast him as soldier, merchant, pirate, slave, ambassador and Jesuit novice (TIME, March 19).
The long voyage home took him 20 years. And he did come back rich. Thereupon, good Renaissance man that he was, Pinto sat him down to write a book about it all. The Grand Peregrination is a retracing of Pinto's story by British Author Maurice Collis, and a...