Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...science's onward march. The menace: a chain system of jukeboxes, all wired to a central studio with a practically unlimited choice of records, and subscribers all over town. Last week one of the largest companies in the new wired juke-box field, Magic Music, Inc. of Columbus, Ohio, began supplying 32 Detroit nightspots...
...politicians-and all religions but their own-are agents of Lucifer, who is at large in the world and now grooming himself for a terrific last-ditch fight with Jehovah. Witnesses have recently been mobbed from Maine to Cali fornia (TIME, June 24). Last week they suffered: 1) at Columbus, Ohio, where Governor Bricker refused to reinstate a canceled contract that would have permit ted them to hold their national convention at the State Fair Grounds; 2) at Clarks burg, W. Va., where they were struck from relief rolls for refusal to salute the flag; 3) at Ocean City...
...ballasted for a more adventurous sailing pace: plump, humane, timorous, uneasily involved in thoughts which set him, in the late Middle Ages, on the borderlands of heresy and of the Renaissance. Without quite understanding why, he has committed himself, in the middle of a tabby life, to sail with Columbus on his third voyage, as guardian of the Spanish King's interests in the New World. On the voyage his mind fumbles toward the invention of the sextant, the use of Indian hammocks at sea, of pumps for bilge, copper sheathing against marine borers. He is fascinated...
...fresh-found Trinidad he sees his first Indians-as touching a set of noble savages as any romantic could wish; and poking along the Orinoco Delta he suspects, by the size of the river, the vast land that bears it. But Columbus is too sure he has found the Earthly Paradise to waste conjecture on a mere South America...
...Columbus' brothers, in charge of Española, are by no means trustworthy, his ex-valet Roldan is in open revolt. Columbus himself is arrogantly, piteously aware that there is not a man on earth he can trust. It is Don Narciso's business to report to his King that "the Admiral was not fit to govern a farmyard, let alone an empire." He dislikes his task, but takes comfort in the thought of sailing, on the morrow, for Spain and the quiet life. Kidnapping, hurricane, shipwreck, a Crusoe sequence delay his return. When he finally sails...