Word: din
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West Punjab, Communist Party-Liner Iftikharud-Din was named Minister in Charge of Refugees, to keep him quiet. But he began urging refugees to demand division of the land, including estates of Moslem landlords, who are among Jinnah's chief backers. One procession of refugees, parading through Lahore, burst into the kitchen of the fat, well-fed Khan of Momdot, Premier of West Punjab and a Jinnah man. Outraged at the contrast between his food and the four thin cha-pattis (wheat pancakes) issued to each of them each day, the demonstrators paraded the Khan's lunch through...
Iftikharud-Din later got himself elected, against Jinnah's opposition, president of the West Punjab section of the Moslem League. This leftist victory, declared a conservative Moslem leader, "has created a serious danger to the Moslem League and . . . Pakistan. There can be no compromise between Islam and any other world philosophy or life system, be it communism, fascism, capitalism or parliamentarianism...
Born. To Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 37, his swashbuckling father's son (The Prisoner of Zenda, Gunga Din), and Mary Lee Epling Fairbanks, 36: their third daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Melissa. Weight...
When General Dwight D. Eisenhower was named president of Columbia University, there were muttered misgivings among many U.S. educators. How does success as a soldier qualify a man as a college president? Most of the complaints could not be heard above the din of crockery at faculty club luncheons, but last week a respected educator brought the talk out into the open. Mild-mannered Monroe Deutsch, 68, vice president and provost emeritus of the University of California, thinks that appointments like Eisenhower's endanger the future of American higher educators...
...result. Not that there aren't any good interpreters of Chopin. What few records were made by the late greats Friedman and Rosenthal have not been reissued; Brailowsky has made few records for either Victor or Columbia, although he has been under contract to both; a rising genius, Din Lipatti has started on the works of Chopin for English Columbia but has not appeared...