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Marxist dialectics reached interesting heights of confusion last week in the election of a deputy mayor of Colombo (pop. 355,000), capital of the island nation of Ceylon...
Britain's Ernest Bevin was tired and blue around the gills when he came ashore at Colombo, Ceylon to attend the Commonwealth Foreign Ministers Conference. "I can't stand this climate," said Bevin. "It's like August bank holiday on Hampstead Heath." His hosts arranged to have him carried in a sedan chair with four strong bearers. Said a friend to Bevin: "You are using a means of transportation which your old union* would not approve...
Strange donors are found on the gift lists. Last year these included the National Museum of Colombo, Ceylon, the Eagle Pencil Company, and the Revere Racing Association...
...year-old New York University sophomore, Brooklyn-born Wald landed a job as radio columnist for the old New York Graphic on the strength of sample columns written with the help of a CBS office boy. A free-lance fan magazine piece about the late Crooner Russ Colombo won him a Warners' writer contract when he was 20, and his career began in earnest. As a producer, after nine years of scripting, he quickly displayed a knack for grabbing story ideas out of the headlines (Action in the North Atlantic, Destination Tokyo), and for hastily getting aboard profitable trends...
...Starting an airline for Pakistan between Karachi, Colombo, London and Singapore. Transocean is buying the planes in the U.S., training Pakistan crews at Oakland, and, while they are getting airborne, will fly the routes with its own planes and pilots. Transocean...