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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tipped off by the Dum Dum arrests and by Hong Kong police, who discovered the names of BOAC employees among the records of a suspect Hong Kong "businessman," BOAC moved in its security chief, a former Scotland Yard detective named Donald ("Flying") Fish. He discovered that some crew members carried jewels, jade, but chiefly easily disposable gold, netted $600 to $700 a trip. Fish spent six weeks investigating, interviewing scores of BOAC staffers, often surprising them at such odd points along their routes as BOAC rest rooms, even (with permission) examining employee bank balances. Last week BOAC announced that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Smuggler's Delight | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Last week the first sober study of consequences was published by the hard-headed Southern Regional Council. The authors: Education Professors Donald Ross Green and Warren E. Gauerke of Atlanta's Emory University. In an objective, 40-page pamphlet (If the Schools Are Closed . . .) they dismantle the private school plan completely. What the scheme amounts to, they prove, is something akin to amputating a broken leg and giving the patient a matchstick to hobble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Truth & Consequences | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

...daughter Wanda, 15. Naomi Nelson, just out of an iron lung, might take months to recover fully. Martha Nelson. 4, was running around but still under observation. Grandma Gruwell, 64, was propped up in a hospital bed, apparently on the mend. Three children-Eileen, 14, Allen, 10, and Donald, 8, who had not eaten the beets-were in good health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Canned Death | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

Jutland, N.J., Hunterdon Hills Playhouse: Joan Bennett and Donald Cook in Anniversary Waltz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Aug. 10, 1959 | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...Donald Cerulli and Rennie Brown are properly pompous and gossipy as family hangers-on and Linda Avitabile, though less successful as Fanny Cavendish, has her moments. Alvin Cohen is evidence that a good actor will make something thorough even out of a non-speaking bit part...

Author: By Harold Scott, | Title: 'Royal Family' Presented at Tufts | 8/6/1959 | See Source »

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