Word: downed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The stamps had an odd look. No matter how she turned the red, white and blue issue commemorating the St. Lawrence Seaway opening,* Mildred Mason, 20, a stenographer for a Winnipeg theater chain, could not get them right side up. She looked closer and realized that the center design and...
The Winnipeg find-in August-touched off a treasure hunt for the upside-down seaways. Only a few were lucky. The Post Office Department, which guessed that 600 stamps had been reversed between printings, quickly found 300 of them. Possibly 200 more had been located by dealers or collectors; the...
Perhaps most important is the final masking of surgeons and nurses. Despite double-thickness or deflector masks (TIME, March 2), Dr. Adams insisted that the fitted filter mask is the only sure preventive of bacterial infection spreading from doctor to patient. The model he favors comprises two layers of copper...
During World War II, when Japan was allied with Nazi Germany, Kotsuji feared persecution for his Semitic sympathies and fled to Manchuria; he returned later to teach at Kantogakuin, a private university in Yokohama. As he recalls it, he was in a spiritual quandary. ul had stopped practicing Christianity because...
But judging from audience response, Gloria Film Co.'s Menschen in Hotel was a Kassenschlager (boxoffice hit). And to Gloria's greying, violet-eyed boss, Use ("Kuba") Kubaschewski, the payoff is all that matters. Hardly had the house lights gone down for the start of the show when...