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Yangtse Incident, by Lawrence Earl. The story of H.M.S. Amethyst's memorable nighttime dash down the Yangtse after 101 days under Communist guns (TIME, July...
...Annie Get Your Gun) Keel, playing Magnolia and Ravenal, lift good voices in Composer Kern's buoyant songs, but Actress Grayson is less than entrancing as the belle of the Cotton Blossom, and Actor Keel's impression of a well-born river gambler's courtliness and dash looks like self-conscious make-believe. Ava Gardner, if occasionally out of her dramatic depth, has no trouble looking her part as the sensuous Julie. But she half-whispers Helen Morgan's old numbers (Bill, Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man) in a small voice which...
...steamed northward at 22 knots through the cobalt waters of the Sea of Japan. On the flight deck of the Princeton, men in multicolored jerseys scurried to their positions for "recovery" (taking planes aboard). The "hot papa," in his shroudlike suit of white asbestos, waited too, ready to dash into flames for rescue if there should be a bad crack-up on the deck...
...Remember," Chou answered, "you gave me some advice once in school. On cold winter mornings, when I could not bring myself to get out of bed, you advised me to bounce right out, and soon I would feel warm for having had the dash of cold. I found in Communism the same experience. It was chilly at first, but much warmer now because of the chill...
...first time he had gone to Dash-ti-Margo (Desert of Death) and discovered a dead city, forgotten by the modern world (TIME, Nov. 7, 1949). This time, accompanied by his bride of five days, Anthropologist Fairservis revisited the same mysterious area of southwest Afghanistan. Near the Bolan Pass, the expedition, came across its first big find: 36 sites which yielded pottery of a hitherto unknown type. On the bottom of many of the pieces were mysterious little signs, some 30 different ones, that look as if they might be the beginnings of an alphabet. Some of the sites, Fairservis...