Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Recessional. As 400 million Indians (one-fifth of mankind) became self-governing, the British recessional was well begun. From lonely outposts in Kashmir, looking nervously north to the Russian border, from lush Assam where tea bushes grow in the spectral sau trees' shade, from residences deep in central India's jungles, from gay and airy Bangalore, more than 60,000 Britons had served notice that they were leaving the land which had been Britain's treasure and shame, her pride and her increasing care...
Senator Homer Ferguson's War Investigating subcommittee, digging into the wartime contracts of Millionaire Plane-builder Howard Hughes, had turned up some gaudy ore. It glittered with headline names, beautiful girls, fantastic expense accounts (TIME, Aug. 4). Last week, the committee went deep into one of the abandoned mine shafts of history, guided by big-time World War II administrators and brasshats and-somewhat unwillingly-by a Hollywood pressagent and a President's son. It found more...
...Sisters. Her wartime experiences had left few visible marks on the Mary. The marks, however, were deep in history and deep in the memories of the armies of American servicemen who traveled...
...deputy and a kind of general manager of the Queen Mary, Captain Illingworth has Staff Captain G. N. Jones, C.B.E., D.S.O., R.D., R.N.R. Captain Jones has a square-rigged jaw and a thatch of white hair over deep-set eyes. He looks (and is) the embodiment of that stout British character which a gloomy statesman in the House of Commons corridor recently said was Britain's one hope. As Captain Illingworth's deputy, he runs the crew. On last week's voyage, the crew was about 30% new to the ship. A few obviously did not know...
Born. To Josephine Medill Patterson Reeve Albright, 33, tiger-shooting, deep-sea-fishing, airplane-flying, labor unioneer (Newspaper Guild) daughter of the late publisher of the New York Daily News; and Artist Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, 50, whose specialty is such uncomfortably detailed pictures of decay as Into The World There Came A Soul Called Ida and the Dorian Gray he painted for MGM: a son, their first child (she had two by her previous marriage); in Chicago. Name: Adam. Weight...