Word: en
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the Mediterranean ("bluer than ever this year") drew its quota from the Paris office, Correspondent William Chapman chose to seclude himself in a rented room and terrace of an 11th Century tower on a river near Tours. Bureau Chief Charles Wertenbaker, en route to the Basque coast ("my favorite place in the world"), tarried in Spain for his favorite spectator sport, bullfighting, and was so moved that he turned out a report of what he saw for TIME (July...
...belonged on the back pages among the shipping and travel notes. At LaGuardia airport, an American Overseas Airlines transport unloaded 30 dogs from Frankfurt, Germany and 97 reptiles from London, including twelve adders, three asps, four viperine snakes, 50 slowworms and two sandboas. On another plane from the Philippines, en route to The Bronx Zoo, came eleven tree shrews, three monkey-eating eagles, 14 giant cloud rats and 30 tarsiers. The tarsier (TIME, March 3), an insect-eating cousin of the monkey, is smaller than a squirrel, weighs only half a pound, has long fingers tipped by adhesive discs. Banjo...
...haphazard expedition. Advance parties of armed men went ahead to build and garrison forts, plant crops along the route, prepare the road. Wagon trains were spaced to conserve grazing land, and the flock was cheered at night by Captain Pitts's Brass Band, which had been converted en masse in England and had come to join the trek...
...next few weeks this initial reaction grew to startling proportions for Inventor White, Audio Engineering and TIME. The radio and sound recording fields were heard from almost en masse. Atomic scientists conveyed their interest, as did numerous industrialists, colleges and universities, foreign scientists, etc. Some wanted to know how to manufacture the ultrasonic siren; others asked whether it could be devoted to such uses as sterilizing insect eggs in flour, the homogenization of chocolate for hand-dipped candies. An invalid wondered whether the instrument would pulverize his kidney stones without damaging him. The Long Island Duck Farmers Association thought...
Horse Trading. The India of New Delhi politicians was little concerned with soul force. Old (70), rabble-rousing Mohamed Ali Jinnah, head of the Moslem League, was greeted by followers with shouts of "Shah-en-Shah Zindabad" (Long live the King of Kings). His birthplace, Karachi, would probably be capital of the new Pakistan, possibly be renamed Jinnahabad...