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Stringer On Pe reports to TIME edi tors on conditions in his area and aids regular correspondents when they arrive on story assignments. He is a graduate of the University of Rangoon, later taught there. After hold ing several top edi torial spots, he has become chief editor of Burma Press Syn dicate. His wife, Nu Yin, is a poetess and short-story writer...
...monuments and the works of art he has come to see are completely unrelated to the realities of post-war Italy: the beggars, the unemployment, the poverty, the ruins. Many of the rivers are still spanned by U. S. army Bailey bridges set on the bombed rubble on ancient edi- fices. Inflation is particularly bad in Italy--the lira is a mere fiftieth of its prewar value. American wallets were much too small for the wads of paper money they had to hold. The thousand lire note, worth about $1.75 this summer, was the size and consistency of a large...
...Kiraly of Hungary finished second and Edi Rada of Austria, the European figure skating champion, third in the final standings...
Died. Colonel (Kentucky style) Daniel E. O'Sullivan, 88, onetime managing edi tor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, long time resident manager of famed Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby; in Louisville. He frequently boosted the Derby in verse ("Any Irishman who couldn't write poetry about a thorough bred horse ought to be chloroformed"), once said that TIME'S description of the Downs as "shabby" made him "Reach for his hip pocket...
...schools and colleges now awn some 15,000 sound-film projectors. Last week the MARCH OF TIME was distributing to them the first issues of its new Forum Edi tion. Early subjects: Brazil, Texas, Future Airways. Adapted from regular M.O.T. productions, the eight monthly issues of the Forum Edition rent for $20 a year...