Word: comings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lawson in Yangcheng in northern China, hundreds of miles from the China coast where she had begun her search. There the two Englishwomen set up an inn for mule drivers. Gladys' first Chinese was a chant: "We have no bugs, we have no fleas. Good, good, good-come, come, come." Her job was to grab the leading mule of a caravan and lead him into the courtyard. After the mules were fed, their drivers became willing listeners to simple Bible stories...
...Berliners this week were dialing "23" on their telephones. What they got was not the time, the weather or Long Distance, but a three-minute report of the latest news from radio station RIAS (Rundfunk im Amerikanischen Sektor). Of the 20,000-30,000 daily calls, nearly half come from residents of Berlin's Soviet sector, who apparently want their telephoned news uncluttered by the party line...
Williams' campaigns often lose him subscriptions (he gets many letters threatening "to come down there and hang you"), but he gets so many new ones that the Farmer is already outgrowing the modern plant which Williams built for $100,000 in Montgomery last year. The Farmer carries little national advertising, yet made $55,000 last year. Since he has become a businessman himself, Williams takes a more kindly, if still somewhat scornful, attitude toward business than he did in the New Deal days. "Making money," says he, "is the easiest thing I ever tried...
...interview stalled when jittery bobby-soxers in the studio audience began to rustle impatiently for the program's handsome, 21-year-old Crooner Bill Lawrence. Scolded Godfrey: "I'm not very happy about the reception you folks give to a serious discussion when you come in here ... I'd like to ask that the folks who came ... to hear the singers wait a few minutes, or there will be no more audience at this show...
...Dean Hutchins in?" he asked. "I'm Hutchins," replied the young man in flannels. "Come in and tell me what you know about the law of evidence." From that meeting on, Philosopher Mortimer Adler was to learn a lot about the dean-and so was the rest of the world. Out of their acquaintance was to come a challenge aimed at everything that many U.S. colleges and universities had come to hold most estimable: spreading campuses, more & more courses, a steady stream of glossy new facts. The sharp question that Hutchins was to put to U.S. higher education...