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...including 60 or more Laurel & Hardy and Harry Langdon shorts). Hal Roach made him a director (of shorts) in 1929, and Stevens moved on into feature-length pictures merely by stretching out his two-reelers. His first big hit was Alice Adams (1935)., followed by such topnotchers as Gunga Din, Woman of the Year, The Talk of the Town, A Place in the Sun, Something to Live...
...Mongol Empire, by Michael Praw-din. First U.S. publication of a classic history of Genghis Khan and his successors; originally (1938) published in German (TIME...
...power battle between Mossadegh and the Shah. In fact, the Shah meticulously tried to stay out of it. "I haven't done anything against the Premier," he complained. This week, as the din subsided, the man in charge was still canny old Mohammed Mossadegh...
...revolution had lost momentum, inevitably. Four months ago, Naguib had jailed 62 old-line politicians, including such discredited jobholders as Fuad Serag el Din, Wafd Party secretary general. Last week all were free...
...next day, which might have brought revolution, did not. By that time Regent Abdul Illah had summoned up his nerve and named a new Premier: Iraq's aggressive, muscular Lieut. General Nurid-din Mahmoud, 53, the army chief of staff. In a few hours armored cars and cavalry began pouring into the city; the Communists slithered away, and Baghdad quieted...