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...abolished in 1833, large numbers of indentured laborers were brought from India until this practice ceased about 1910. About a tenth of the total population are East Indians. They form at least half of the population of Trinidad, whose capital, Port of Spain, is one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world. There are also about 18,000 Chinese and a smaller number of Syrians...
...running to be the new nation's first Paramount Ruler because of his marital didoes (TIME. Aug. 12), and across the Strait of Malacca, when Indonesia's President Sukarno took a third wife, he touched off vehement, widely publicized feminist demonstrations. In the more cosmopolitan Moslem cities such as Rabat, Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul and Karachi, unveiled women have long since ceased to be a novelty. In Turkey the veil was lifted some 30 years ago under the late great Dictator Kemal Ataturk, and in Iran under the late Reza Shah...
...competition with better-heeled fiction magazines, the Atlantic-which helped pioneer the short story-has long been forced to search for stories by new and inexpensive writers, and has started many U.S. authors on the road to fame. Example: in 1927, after Cosmopolitan, the old Scribner's, Saturday Evening Post and Collier's had all turned down a brutally succinct short story about a crooked prizefighter, it was accepted by Staffer Edward Weeks, now editor of the Atlantic. Titled Fifty Grand, it was the first story by Ernest Hemingway to be published in a general-circulation U.S. magazine...
...Jones; though they paid only the half-rate fee of $5 a session, he admitted that without them he could not make ends meet. There were times when Freud could have made big money easily. In 1920 he had an offer of $1,000 each for articles in Cosmopolitan, huffily turned it down because the editors told him what they wanted him to write about: "The Wife's Mental Place in the Home." In 1924 Colonel "Bertie" McCormick cabled Tribune Staffman George Seldes...
...buried with him when he died, "at my feet, of course." By contrast, poor Armand is such an average Jean that chauffeurs, spotting him near the Daimler, ask him whom he drives for. Can this shy, sweet and sad duke ever find Miss Right? Out of this soapy dilemma, cosmopolitan, gourmettlesome Author Ludwig Bemelmans, 59, blows yet another bubble of sentimental whimsy, wry humor and worldly innocence...