Word: englished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head of the English department. That honor belongs to Colonel Peter M. Moody of Cooleemee...
Associate Professor of English...
Foreign manufacturers trying to sell in the U.S. often have to worry not only about competitive pricing but about U.S. national security. U.S. electrical manufacturers have argued that foreign equipment could not be properly repaired and maintained in a national emergency, invoked national security to block the English Electric Co. from supplying turbines for the Greers Ferry Dam in Arkansas, even though English Electric's bid was 17% lower than the contract winner, Baldwin Lima-Hamilton Corp. (TIME, Feb. 2). Last week the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization ruled, in effect, that the national security argument...
...rent from Andy Stone and MGM. Finally, on location last week in Osaka Bay, the Ile reverberated with strange commands, such as "Open the barndoors on the broads!"* In the first-class staterooms, a collection of extras as mixed as the strays in a Conrad novel-English girls from Kobe, White Russians, Poles, wives of U.S. marines, a French judo expert-had the maritime of their lives and drew $10 a day. As the cameras rolled, Realist Stone pushed his 101 performers (including George Sanders, Edmond O'Brien, Robert Stack) through the paces of disaster. A grand piano plunged...
Died. Sax Rohmer (pen name for Arthur Sarsfield Ward), about 76, creator of 20th century English fiction's most durable villain: Fu Manchu; after long illness ; in London. Modeled on a mysterious Chinese Rohmer spotted one night in 1913 in the Limehouse fog, wily, sinister Fu Manchu outwitted his Anglo-Saxon pursuers in and out of 13 books and the most exotic parts of the world, assembled a memorable team of Oriental ogres to dispose of his victims, lured such connoisseurs of evil as Boris Karloff and Warner (Charlie Chan) Oland to portray him on screen, almost died horribly...